Suppose this was _your_ property, and you lived round the corner (which
may have been the case in this example), would you prefer that (a) the
police rang round trying to get your phone number, to ask you to go to
the property immediately or (b) the police smashed the door down,
without first inviting you to open it, because of concerns that passing
your phone number to them would invade your privacy?
Maurice Frankel
Campaign for Freedom of Information
On 11 Jun 2004, at 13:06, Kirsty E Gray wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 22:26:52 +0100, Roland Perry
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> It rather depends on whether or not the police were telling the truth
>> when they said there was a gas leak [1]. What evidence, or
>> certification, did they present that this was actually the case?
>
> Either there's a leak & a public safety issue = kick the door down!
>
> Or they're scamming for information that they are not lawfully
> entitled to
> receive and weren't even confident about asking under S.29.
>
> After all, the landlord could live anywhere - were they going to wait
> to
> get access till s/he came back from Caymen Islands tax haven with the
> spare
> keys?
>
> I'd think that potentially disclosure was unlawful - particularly with
> restrictions on secondary use of CT data. Or have I've just got a very
> jaundiced view of the Police!
>
> Regards, Kirsty.
>
> Kirsty E Gray
> Data Protection Officer
> Commission for Social Care Inspection
>
> Note: comments for discussion and debate only and do not necessarily
> reflect the corporate position of CSCI nor constitute legal advice.
>
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