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To the surprise of many observers, the Scottish government announced in early 2015 plans for a Scottish National ID system, based on the existing health service database. The Scottish National Party (SNP), in power in Scotland since 2007, had previously strongly rejected similar plans for a national database for the whole of the UK due to privacy concerns. How can this change of policy be explained?
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Professor for Computional Legal Theory, School of Law, Edinburgh University
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Schafer, B. An ID database for post-referendum Scotland? A legal-contextual analysis. Datenschutz Datensich 39, 611–616 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-015-0483-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11623-015-0483-8