Reply to post: @Red Bren - Re: Commit a small crime to stop a big crime?

Home Office is cruising for a lawsuit over police use of face recog tech

Graham Marsden
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@Red Bren - Re: Commit a small crime to stop a big crime?

> If someone was to hack in to a system in order to delete a database of illegally held information, would it be a crime?

Unfortunately, yes. It's what you do, not *why* you do it that tends to count.

Of course that doesn't apply if your the Police/ Security Services/ Government/ whoever because it's one law for us and another one for them (or, at least, one that they can ignore...)

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