The big deal is...
That the police should not be hoovering up personally identifiable data on the general public because it is against national data protection policy, that's why the ICO has stepped in. Given the number of data protection infringements admitted to by the police where officers have abused access to police systems for personal reasons and that the police have historically been involved in dubious political intelligence operations against perfectly innocent members of the public I think it's a good thing to keep their powers of surveillance in check.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
