"Rather more likely is that the ICO hurridly wrote a search application and threw it before the judge, and a discussion went something like this:-"
The ICO has been very pointedly ignoring CA's antics for the last 2 years until the C4 "expose" gave it no choice but to be seen to be taking action.
But the conversation is likely to have been close to that described.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
