Re: The ICO won't see any money
> HMRC are too busy hassling IT contractors
In the spirit of off-topic irony, HMRC do not employ any IT contractors. Directly. They use CapGemini instead and CapGemini use literally hundreds of IT contractors to do work for HMRC*. Those contractors are well aware of HMRC's nefarious ambitions in their direction however, and are unlikely to just sit there and take it.
*Disclosure - I am currently one of them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
