Tom, Dick and Harriet don't let you go to school

[Ian Batten]

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> You are doing what most commentators seem to be guilty of, partly by  
> conflating the different sections and completely ignoring the pre- 
> RIPA regime. *Anyone* trying to enforce something could make traffic  
> data requests, or do untrammelled surveillance; RIPA produced a  
> smaller list for both (albeit trimmed down even more later).

As I understand it, the only point about a  DPA S.29(3) was it allowed  
certain `bods' to offer a letter of comfort.   But with or without a  
29(3) notice, the response to a request was at the discretion of the  
data controller, and in those innocent days it was widely assumed that  
the DPA was a trivial piece of fussing.  I suspect that in the 1990s  
traffic data was available to anyone who asked, for any purpose.

A local primary school was checking up on applications using  
surveillance when a friend of mine was seeking entrance for her  
daughter.  Said daughter is about to do her A Levels.

ian