I see the decision has now been published on the IPT's site http://www.ipt-uk.com/default.asp?sectionID=17 but either a) they've uploaded a useless file, or b) my software won't read it.
Jonathan Baines
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Buckinghamshire County Council
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From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roland Perry
Sent: 04 August 2010 14:18
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Poole Council Decision
In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 15:20:01 on Mon, 2 Aug 2010, Ibrahim Hasan <[log in to unmask]> writes
>The decision about Poole Council's use of surveillance powers has just
>been given by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/aug/02/school-catchment-spying
>
>It will have big implications for councils' use of surveillance powers
>and ties in nicely with the recent announcement by the Government to
>review the use of RIPA by councils
I'm not sure why it's that important. It seems to me they made a basic blunder of trying to establish where a family was living *after* the qualifying date for school admission (at which point it's irrelevant where they live).
As such, their surveillance operation was fundamentally misconceived.
That doesn't mean that other surveillance operations would suffer from the same problem.
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Roland Perry
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