No hiding place for fly tippers

[Roland Perry]

In article <20080202220026.76c87ce2@peterson.fenrir.org.uk>, Brian 
Morrison <bdm@fenrir.org.uk> writes
>> >I know "Simon Says" so, but that doesn't always make it so.
>>
>> Tsk. I doubt you'll ever find him being wrong on matters like this.
>
>It's not Simon being wrong that worries me, it's the prospect of the
>rules being ignored, no action being taken against the miscreants, and
>the gradual erosion of the protections intended.

In the case of RIPA data, there are some substantial (and unusual) 
protections in place. For example, requests only being accepted via 
trained and authenticated points of contact. No mobile operator is going 
to be fooled into releasing cellsite data to the Egg Marketing Board, 
just because their CEO rang up and asked for it.
-- 
Roland Perry