Reply to post: C'mon, lets not take the law into our own hands, please?

ICO whacks Welsh biz with £350k fine for 150 million nuisance calls

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C'mon, lets not take the law into our own hands, please?

The bit you want is the 'Directors & Secretaries' section for the names and addresses.

Usually (but not always) these are document service addresses, not the home addresses. And the reason directors can use these semi-anonymous addresses is specifically because directors used to have to give their home addresses, but then the twats from the animal rights lobby took to going round and attacking and abusing the directors and their families.

In this case, for a low value of non-violent nuisance retaliation, I think some of us can accept that they'd deserve that. But anything beyond that, and you're taking it upon yourself to enforce a form of "justice" outside the court system. Who will be deemed guilty by you? What will be their punishment? And where will all that end? I suspect that anything they'd call the police over would see people on a harassment or stalking charge, and rightly so.

We have criminal and civil justice systems that are the envy of most of the world. Sometimes they don't deliver the result many people want, but that's not the fault of the courts, but usually of careless civil servants and lackadaisical politicians. Rather than forming a lynch mob for each instance, how about using the energy campaigning to get director's personal liability added as a clause to the draft data protection bill?

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