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And while Snowden and Manning had security clearances and Official Secrets Laws holding them accountable for mis-using the data they had access too, I wonder if anyone's even asking who at the local council level has access to this sort of data, and what policies/procedures/systems/agreements/accountability is in place here? Who wants to bet there's nothing stopping the local dog catcher or garbage collection manager from requesting whatever they can plausably justify - then downloading it onto a usb drive and walking out of the office with it?



It might be a way to make civil service more attractive to stalkers.

If I were anybody's ex-wife with a messy divorce and/or a restraining order, I'd be very opposed to all this.




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