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Originally Posted by punky
I think its rather worrying when businesses get so big they can blackmail the government like that Not really. They are lawful requests for information. They are meant to be complied with. They aren't voluntary. If a rapist was caught leaving the scene of a crime on someone's CCTV and the store owner refused to comply with a subpoena for the video footage, would you be happier with that?
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big difference there. They have a very good idea a cctv camera may have caught a specific perpetrator.
That is completely different to asking for information in a general term because some people per thousand maybe breaking the law. I suspect that it would also be against the DPA for anyone to hand over such information without first gaining permission or having all users make the option per search.