| From: | Richard Wheeldon |
| Date: | 11 Sep 2000 at 14:29:25 |
| Subject: | Re: Data Protection Act (was: Sanskrit not) |
Anthony W. Prime wrote:
> One of the nastier elements of the DPA is that you can be prosecuted
> personally for data abuse (such as removal from company premises).
Do you know how many successful prosections of individuals have been
made
under this act? Iirc, it's 1 in 16 years of it's existence.
Imho, this is yet another stupid bit of badly-written legislation.
Nothing like the stupidity of the RIP but still lame,
Richard
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