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As principally, a DPO, I haven't a clue about the technical side but it's not breaching the DP Act as that is part of their sentence for committing a crime. Are there dp implications here...other than criminal convictions are sensitive personal data but it will depend who watches them and the only thing I can think of would be if someone who was monitoring was targeting them but then with the story about the girls' accessing the police computers on their friends, I hardly think it likely. Also, it would probably be impossible to alter where someone had gone..........(but that's for you techies so perhaps I am wrong). Glad we're doing something at last though to stop paedos etc going near schools, parks and so on......
I am so glad it is Friday...........
Dor
Doreen Broom
Access to Information Officer
Scottish Borders Council
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From: Roland Perry [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 03 September 2004 11:41
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Subject: Re: BBC article, satelites tracking
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<[log in to unmask]>, at
09:40:18 on Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jim Whitaker <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>If you want a fairly complete technical overview with an assessment of
>some of the features/risks see
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/02/blunkett_tagging_hype/
Sorry, but that links to their backgrounder:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/02/satellite_monitoring/
Which trots out the nonsense [1] version:
"The trial will involve up to 120 convicted criminals from three
regions of the country. Each will be fitted with a tracking
device about the size of a video cassette on a belt around the
waist, and a second device on the ankle. The video sized box
sends a signal to the satellite which then informs police of the
wearers location. the ankle device monitors the transmitter to
make sure it is not tampered with."
The root story suggests that the ankle "tag" contains the phone that
alerts the police when necessary, but it's not clear that this is the
case.
[1] GPS listens to the satellite and never transmits to it.
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Roland Perry
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