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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler
At least the Home Affairs Select Committee seem to be aware of the concept of function creep:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7441693.stm [ same LINK as above ]
This leads to a short video "Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee on the misuse of data", a few nods and winks in the debate regarding concerns over data. On the whole Keith Vaz made all the usual political fluff talk about assurances and eluded to how the 'Information Commisioner' will save us from abuse!?!
So data abuse gets a 5 minute slot on the BBC with all the warm words of comfort and platitudes about safety. No mention about data abuse by ISPs and collaborations with criminal outfits such as 121Media(Phorm). Vaz did acknowledge 'mission creep' in relation to local councils abusing RIPA powers for none national security reasons.
What the politicians need to get a grip of is how companies like Phorm will abuse private personal data through mission creep. We have already seen an example discussed by licensed private investigator Steven Rambam how government bureacrats in America circumvent data laws by allowing private companies to do the dirty work of collecting information and profiling citizens. This is exactly what Phorm will do if they are given half a chance to, if they can abuse it they will.
Steven Rambam material
Parts 1,2 and 3
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...01334&q=&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...76329&q=&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...89975&q=&hl=en