Surely you couldn't successfully prosecute individuals for being reckless if
they were following their organisation's procedures (or even doing their
best in the absence of procedures). Conniving with someone to make the
disclosure would be a different matter.
Paul Ticher
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: "GM subsidiary paid conman for "blagged" private data, court
told"
> In message <000a01c78733$00e46b40$14a98f56@Nick>, at 13:12:32 on Wed, 25
> Apr 2007, Nick Landau <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Did anyone pick up this article in yesterday's Guardian:
>>
>>"GM subsidiary paid conman for "blagged" private data, court told"
>>
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2064180,00.html
>
> I've seen comments on another list. Although their main concern was that
> the DWP personnel who were tricked into revealing the information were not
> apparently themselves prosecuted for a s55 offence, and that there were
> seemingly not procedures in place in the DWP to fully authenticate
> callers.
>
> How realistic it is to attempt to prove "reckless disclosure", I don't
> know.
> --
> Roland Perry
>
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