Government drops jail for data thieves... again The government has quietly dropped plans to jail personal data thieves, frustrating the Information Commissioner and arousing criticism of the Data Protection Act as toothless. Ministers had planned to grant judges stronger powers against unscrupulous private investigators and journalists from April. In a private briefing to …
How about someone steal Ministry of Justice officials home addresses and publish it online, do you think THEN a poxy fine will become a rushed through prison sentence? Sounds like those that keep refusing prision sentences for this crime, need to become victims, as that's the only way they'll suddenly give a fk.
is an absolute joke. As far as I can tell there are no penalties for being as cavalier as you care with peoples personal data.
No penalties = no incentive to do anything at all.
In my opinion data protection should be accorded the same status as Health and Safety, where people can be jailed for deliberately flouting it, and individuals can find themselves saddled with unlimited fines, for breaches.
Bet it doesn't happen though.
... ergo Prepare for Model Catastrophe, for IT is Turned Stormy Tempestuous
"When the necessary legislation was originally passed in 2008, a surprise intervention by the Ministry of Justice blocked its implementation."
Whenever you realise that Governments plagiarise data they have stolen/phished/acquired/phormed/call it what you will, from all sources of both private and public intelligence sources/news flows/media mogul operations that they are tapping/keeping tabs on, you will realise that they would have to render themselves to jail, for the law not be proven again to be an ass and an instrument of subjective oppression/advantage.
Come on, Children, Get your Sorry Governance Act together before you are Outed as Total Information Awareness Incompetents. ....... and just as Cuckoos into the Feather Nesting Perks at the Everyon Else's Expense. Where is your Intelligence? AWOL on Rogue Missions? Doing IT for themselves?
Of course there's going to be no penalty. Given the amount of data crime by the govt itself, they're probably nervous about where serious penalties might end up applying.
Plus - and possibly even more important - this kind of data offence doesn't impact on their paymasters, the media industry. They actually count - the public doesn't.
So - huge penalties for copying a CD, but a slap on the wrist for major data crime. Did we REALLY think it was going to be any different?
"Straw and Meddlesome are a joke .... You are the weakest link.
Goodbye - you are unelectable" ..... Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 19th February 2010 18:16 GMT
And now do slimy toads and slippery snakes think to play with and manhandle banking too for the easy immediate unaccountable profit of quantitative easing? ..... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7280918/Mandelson-backs-state-run-investment-bank.html
Control the money supply/paper flow, and control the ignorant masses who work for it fools' gold ...... "Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it’s laws." .... Mater Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. ...... which sort of puts Mandy on a collision course with other Greedy Establishment Despots, which should be at least sparkling
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