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On 11/01/2012 15:01, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:k.brown@bbk.ac.uk">k.brown@bbk.ac.uk</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">As to whether its legal or justified to keep such data, there is, I
assume, no law against anyone standing at the side of the road and
jotting down registration numbers on a pad. Or storing them in a
computer.
Its hard to imagine the government passing a law that stops its own
agencies doing things that private citizens are permitted to do.</pre>
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Or it would be hard if the Human Rights Act hadn't done exactly
that.<br>
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Nicholas<br>
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