In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Owen Parry <[log in to unmask]> writes
>When I am asked by the police to confirm whether or not a person was in
>attendance as a student and cannot actually find the person in our records,
>can I inform the police that I have no record of that person? Obviously I
>have no way of contacting the person to gain their consent.
>
>My own advice was that he/she should refuse to confirm or deny the existence
>of records until the police provided the correct paperwork, because If
>he/she confirmed no records in one case, it therefore suggests that in other
>cases records may exist by failing to confirm no records.
There have been similar discussions regarding the introduction of RIPA,
and whether it would be acceptable for the police to ask informally if a
particular person was a customer of an ISP first, rather than go through
the long winded formal process of issuing a RIPA S22 notice, waiting
several months, only to be told "never heard of them 'guv".
The current answer seems to be "well, we didn't write RIPA, and don't
want to be a jobsworth, but unless we say "no" how can we stop fishing
expeditions".
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