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LibDem tech chief backs free postcodes

26 November 2009 0 ,

Delighted to see LibDem MP (and client) Lynne Featherstone write the following:

As Chair of the Liberal Democrat Technology Board - and an MP who believes that the internet should be used to strengthen democracy - I want to declare my support for the Free our Data campaign. We need postcodes to be owned by the public - not sold to the public. Postcodes are the basic pre-requisite for allowing services to be developed that support democratic accountability. This is an issue that cuts across parties [...] and so it should, because it's about how the data about us can help us all.

I wonder where she got the idea originally? Can't have been this, surely.

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