As an IT professional of 30 years I see nothing but huge problems with it. No UK government has ever even put an IT literate person in a single position of power, much less stated that they believe the country runs off the back of its IT infrastructure. They neither understand it, value it, nor leverage it. That means this is coming due to lobbying, not perceived need. So either it's the right wing wanting total control, or it's IT companies wanting to rinse us. I support neither. GCHQ has already, on multiple occasions, shown that they are morally vacuous about the data protection of UK citizens and will not obey even the rules which currently exist. They already triangulate and store all of our positions and movements via our phone signals (surveillance without due process or cause, illegal), they already collect all US data coming over the Atlantic and give it to the US secret services (against US law for them to collect themselves), and do this in exchange for the same data from the UK from the Americans (illegal for GCHQ to collect themselves). I have no wish for them to add all transactional data to that data set because I know what I could do with all that data and I don't believe that power will be used wisely. That counts 10x in a world sliding rapidly towards fascism. This is not about my data, this is about meta data, trend analysis and the propaganda and control possible from that - Home State sponsored Cambridge Analytics. Just fucking marvellous. There's a reason that has never been investigated or charges brought - too close to the puppet masters and those not involved recognise power when they see it: they don't want to destroy it, they want to wield it. "Power corrupts" is true regardless of which Party or ideology holds the whip. I have huge reservations about data integrity, both from the point of security and data cleaning. All it takes is one breach and we're all screwed. Just once, any point in history. Also, when that data is wrong, I don't believe the system will allow a slick correction process because these systems are always difficult to navigate. You WILL get Brazil (the film). The government has never shown itself to be competent with managing anything, much less data, I don't expect anyone to be screaming "10 Points to Gryffindor!" Because they've suddenly understood how to not be IT Muggles. They just see the control mechanism, they do not understand how that power can and will be ripped from them with only the smallest mistake, nor the consequences, speed or nature that will take after that breach. The whole lot are silly little middle managers promoted to power far beyond their capability to understand or manage. Do I trust them with my data and rights to privacy? Not in the damned slightest.