No hiding place for fly tippers

[Roland Perry]

In article <47A5A3FE.7460.8E053D@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen 
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes
>> >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.
>
>Bods whose career depends on them doing what the organisation they work
>for wants them to do.

Agreed. Those organisations probably *don't* want to become known as 
"the mobile phone company that give cellsite data to anyone who 
illegally demanded it". Whether you like it or not, such organisations 
do strive to stay within the law, and have significant compliance 
operations in place.

>Anyway, you have not answered Brian's point. Perhaps one of the Huttons
>could outline what action has been taken against miscreants, other than
>saying what wonderful people they are in a rather gushing fashion.

Tesco has fired employees for misusing customer data, and Norwich Union 
was famously fined £1.26million for data breaches. More visibility of 
action taken against deliberate transgressions of RIPA would probably 
increase confidence that the system was working, I agree.
-- 
Roland Perry