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Data protection Act
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:42:50 +0000, hugh ] wrote:
In message , Tumbleweed writes "Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... "Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message ... The message from martin contains these words: DPA was used as a very poor excuse for police incompetence in the Humberside Police Force. It was quite clear that the DPA does not apply in this case. The Humberside dibble claim to have taken legal opinion. They have to be absolutely scrupulous about adhering to the law (criminal law especially) and whatever your gut feeling is about the stupidity of some legislation, they have to heed legal opinion - especially in an area so easily checked. Perhaps they might consider sacking their legal advisor, just in case another booby like this occurs? If they had disregarded theit legal advice, which no doubt cost them a lot of money, they would probably have solved the case much more quickly, thus saving themselves money which might have helped the progress of other cases. The worst that could have happened would be that they might have had their knuckles formally rapped with a cotton wool covered ruler. But they would have emerged from the issue with considerably more honour. Franz No, the worst would have been headlines in the tabloids screaming how the stupid police broke the DPA by not erasing data of 'innocent' people, and demanding the person in charge be sacked. Thats the way the DPA works in practice, its so vague that its meaning is defined by the results of prosecutions, rather than by anyone being able to make sense of it and no what to do in the first place. The very fact that different police forces work differently with regard to it shows this, they are just going on legal advice, and the lawyers cant make their minds up collectively what it means. In the meantime police forces are building up a DNA database by holding on to all samples even from people who are not suspects. Good. ********************************************** 'You can't win 'em all.' Lord Haw Haw. Since I stopped donating money to CONservation hooligan charities Like the RSPB, Woodland Trust and all the other fat cat charities I am in the top 0.801% richest people in the world. There are 5,951,930,035 people poorer than me If you're really interested I am the 48,069,965 richest person in the world. And I'm keeping the bloody lot. So sue me. http://www.globalrichlist.com/ Newsgroup ettiquette 1) Tell everyone the Trolls don't bother you. 2) Say you've killfiled them, yet continue to respond. 3) Tell other people off who repsond despite doing so yourself. 4) Continually talk about Trolls while maintaining they're having no effect. 5) Publicly post killfile rules so the Trolls know how to avoid them. 6) Make lame legal threats and other barrel scraping manoeuvres when your abuse reports are ignored. 7) Eat vast quantities of pies. 8) Forget to brush your teeth for several decades. 9) Help a demon.local poster with their email while secretly reading it. 10) Pretend you're a hard ******* when in fact you're as bent as a roundabout. 11) Become the laughing stock of Usenet like Mabbet 12) Die of old age 13) Keep paying Dr Chartham his fees and hope one day you will have a penis the girls can see. --------------------------------------- "If you would'nt talk to them in a bar, don't *uckin' vote for them" "Australia was not *discovered* it was invaded" The Big Yin. |
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