Poole Council (current frontrunner in the 2008 Erich Honecker Memorial Award), is to be investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for its rampant RIPAing.
Deputy Information Commissioner David Smith said: “”The ICO has some concerns about the surveillance that has taken place in Poole.
“It seems that in at least some cases the surveillance has involved the covert collection of personal information about those individuals under scrutiny.
“We will be contacting Poole Borough Council to ensure that the way in which personal information about those under surveillance has been collected and subsequently processed meets the requirements of the Data Protection Act.”
A jobsworth speaking on behalf of Poole’s senior pen pushers bleated in a somewhat less confident manner than normal: “The council has not yet received a formal request from the ICO and cannot comment further at this stage.
“However, the council will cooperate fully with any request it receives from the Information Commissioner’s Office on this matter.”
Personally, I think Poole have been grassed up by Bideford after their extraordinary ploy of banning politics in their council chamber failed to get them top spot (see 13th May). Bideford will now obviously do anything to get their hands on this year’s saught-after Honecker.
Tags: bideford, councils, david smith, ico, information commissioner's office, poole, ripa, uk
