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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has dropped its ACS:Law investigation on BT.
It decided that the telco was not responsible for emailing unencrypted customer details to controversial solicitors ACS:Law. Instead it has handed the ball back to the company claiming that as the incident concerned the failure of staff within the company, BT should deal with it internally.
The ICO said in a statement: "We have regular contact with a range of organisations regarding allegations of staff inappropriately accessing or disclosing personal information."
"Where it is found that the data controller has adequate policies and safeguards in place, the usual and most appropriate outcome is disciplinary action taken by the employer."
However, BT might not be out of the ICO's beady eyes just yet - with the statement hinting that if it was found that an employee had accessed records for personal gain, such as selling it to a third party, the ICO could open a criminal investigation.
The ICO began looking into the case late last year after BT emailed details about more than 500 of its customers to solicitors at ACS:Law. ACS:Law had obtained the customers' details from BT and others through a court order and had intended to sue them over alleged copyright infringement. However these were leaked following a DDoS attack.
The ruling by the ICO has angered rights groups. Alexander Hanff, a spokesman at Privacy International, blasted the watchdog in a blog post claiming that its decision made a farce of the Data Protection Act.
"This is an incredibly dangerous decision for the ICO to have made as it effectively dissolves any pretence that a company is responsible for the actions of its employees at work," he said.
"Whereas we already had a very weak data protection regime due to lack of enforcement and regulatory capture, we now effectively have no data protection regime with regards to corporate breaches of the Data Protection Act," he added.
Just look at the more grateful than gratefuls, oka the sympathetics. Should Divinity exists and you are able to perceive Him-Her, will you run to the top of the hill and started rejoicing, proclaiming and then re-presenting? Of course you would because you are lacking the very essence of Divinity, the lack [of the concept] of ownership issues. Your perception was/is only an imagination for when your are part of Divinity, your state of existence will not include the need to represent/preach/”Oooh, I still cannot believe it”, and so forth. As the comedian illustrated when someone told him that, “I’ve never been to jail”, to which the comedian replied, “You dumb MF, you are not supposed to go to jail”. Just witness the worship of the current “American President”, oka worship at its best. Realise that should you be part of Reality, the [wayward] desire to enjoy the trappings of “the presidency” will not there - as in not having the desire to smoke, say, some bare/unlaced newspaper rolls.
Existence within Relativity is merely a series of temporal change of state whereas within Reality, nothing ever changes otherwise the floods, droughts, earthquakes, sunshine, moonshine, and so forth will be unbelieveably more frequent than the constant worships of the illusionals-cum-delusions. The real joke then is the constant gratitude of others being given what they have paid for, be that emotionally, materially and/or intellectually, which then sets up the perpetual state of hunger for gratification - to be grateful for what should be. That is how cunning and cruel The Bookie is - through granting a win after a loss when in reality there is no such thing as a gain or a loss - unlike, say, “The Central Bankers”. If true, is humanity dumb or is it stupid or perhaps even the proverbial excuse of being merely ignorant. If only the reality is so easily forgiven because it is none of those reasons. Humanity is what and where it has always been, the lack of the realisation that Destruction is only because Construction is lacking and nothing else.
Be truly constructive and the destructive is but a bad dream and that step starts with those who are gifted the deeper/real perception much like those first fishes which waded ashore eons back - unlike some Explosive Expert yakking on about “Global Warming” whilst wasting his Moment of Truth by trying to destroy the Earth even as he declares to all and sundry otherwise. Change is when the individual changes and collectively, that then is the change. Reality is one’s experience whereas knowledge is others’ experiences, should it even be that and not their knowledge too. Now, who would want to keep is old moblie phone for starters. Really? Not even after having a heart transplant for that screw is still revving to have another go at destroying his newfound heart, oka his nutters. Afterall, he still have soo much unfinished business !! .. and the same goes for the liver transplanted. “Thar is soo many glory days to come” like another pub crawl or the counting of zer level of zer mint whilst not realising that every Gene of The Bookie too will be accounted for at the very same moment. How truly dumb the truly stupid really are - not because they cannot see the stupidity-cum-dumbness of others as they rip into their intended but because they cannot see their own similar position.