No hiding place for fly tippers

[David Hansen]

On 3 Feb 2008 at 11:55, Roland Perry wrote:

> 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".

The bods concerned work for the likes of the Egg Marketing Board.

> Whether you like it or not, such organisations 
> do strive to stay within the law, and have significant compliance 
> operations in place.

These companies wanted and got an only obeying orders approach. They 
are not to decide on anything, only to tick the appropriate boxes and 
slope their shoulders if questioned.

It would be good if they had continued to accept their responsibilities 
to theur customers, but they didn't want to.
 
> 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.

There is no visibility at the moment, other than some smug reports from 
the Huttons which say that everyone involved is wonderful.

Given the gushing nature of the Huttons' reports it is not clear if 
there has been *any* action taken against any of these bods for their 
transgessions. I suspect that there has been no such action at all.

-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
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