No hiding place for fly tippers

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:58:19 +0000


In article <47A6176A.3113.250E465@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen 
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes

>> 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.

In that case it's even simpler: they can ask for things they aren't 
entitled to until they are blue in the face.

>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.

Do you any particular incident in mind, where comms data was obtained 
fraudulently?

In the only case I can recall, Anthony Kelly and Andrew Pickering were 
given suspended jail sentences and sacked by BT. But that wasn't data 
being blagged by the police, of course. Quite the opposite.
-- 
Roland Perry