International Law

HM Treasury Spending Challenge, online anonymity and the now insecure WikiLeaks.org

We have been critical of the grasping information stealing powers which HM Treasury has abrogated to itself under the control freakery of the previous Labour government.

In spite of these unlimited powers, they do not seem to have a clue as to exactly where all the public money has been wasted.

It is therefore interesting to see the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition government's new Web 2.0 (WordPress blog, promotion via Twitter, Facebook etc.) website entitled:

Spending Challenge

This attempts to solicit information about saving public money, from, initially, those people actually working in the Public Sector
i.e.

Armed forces
Central government
Education and training
Executive agencies & non-departmental government bodies
Local and regional government (including fire services)
NHS
Police (including civilians)
Private sector partners working with public sector
Third sector organisations working with public sector (e.g. charities)
Other

After July 9th, the wider general public, will, apparently, also be allowed to contribute ideas.

There is an encrypted web form, but no published email address for this Spending Challenge website.

Interestingly, this official UK Government website specifically mentions online anonymity and also the controversial and now insecure "whistleblower" website http://wikileaks.org

Full post as published by Spy Blog on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).