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Originally Posted by Dephormation

more coming... or there would be if I could find the EoN transcripts... he corrects Alistair at one point and says words to the effect, "my information is 160,000", I'll see if I can find it in the audio (unless someone can direct me to a transcript).

Judging by the length of text, this quote comes from around 1h15m to 1h20m

AH> Given the possibility that BT involved a possible 130,000 customers, this is based on the reports we have had in the press, in the trails, do you believe the gravity of this issue requires direct government action as opposed to the local police force?

EoN> Local police inforcement for this issue would be inappropriate in any event. It is a deeply complex issue technologically and the lack of ability ... would not be able to handle it. So you get back to the way in which a nation, the TCU emasculated within Soca and that sort of thing - give us part of the question again, I have forgotten.

AH> Given the possibility of the quantity ...

EoN> Yes, it is extremely serious in my view and I dispair that ... that the authorities are ...

AH> Passing the buck?

EoN> It is not only passing the buck ... they are being dismissive of it. Sure, it is a bit like a hot potato. So the Home Office passes it to the ICO. The ICO passes it to Socca so round and round the mulberry bush we go. So in that sense there is a degree of passing the buck. But I think there is a more serious issue: it is that presumption that appears to exist that dispite affecting and reports of 130,000. I have heard as many as 160,000. And not all of them will be as disgruntled as each other but nevertheless a fair proportion of them will and this is potentially a criminal offence. And the authorities, whoever it may be, to treat it so dismissively. It is the dismissiveness that I find so objectionable.