By Nick Heath
Published: Friday 04 January 2008
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Name
Simon
Location
Cumbria
Occupation
IT
Comment
Oh FFS ! Yet again, a proposal for yet more laws to deal with problems ALREADY COVERED BY LAWS !
We do NOT need any new laws, all we need is for the existing laws to be made worthwhile. Specifically, as long as the Information Commissioner is as toothless as he is then we'll see no improvement.
Simply give the ICO the powers to go and and CHECK (like the H&SE has), plus the powers to properly prosecute where the law is being broken, AND the budget to be able to do it. At the moment, the ICO lacks some key powers, but most importantly is lacking the budget (just like the H&SE) to do it's job properly.
Oh yes, and if we are ever to have any faith in the current law, the exemptions currently abused by the government need scrapping.
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