WTF - they got the PAF

[OwlHoot]

Whoever maintains it should also own it to make up for the effort keeping it up to date.

and of course as fees will be charged depending on the frequency of updates then we all know damned well most users will be using months out of date data, and there are typically a flurry of requests for newly allocated postcodes.

For example, I pity the poor sods who try to buy one of those 100,000 new houses the Government wants/plans to build. ...

[AtW]

Agreed about the NHS - but PAF isn't private data, it's just a list of addresses.

It's a database which is covered by EU database rights.

[d000hg]

It's a database which is covered by EU database rights.

Databases have rights now? This is PC gone mad.

[AtW]

Databases have rights now? This is PC gone mad.

Intellectual Property Office - Database right

[NickFitz]

Whoever maintains it should also charge private companies such as Royal Mail who want to use it, for the effort keeping it up to date.

FTFY

[xoggoth]

Great if they let us buy custom postcodes as long a they don't stop rude ones as with number plates. Pathetic prudish country.

[AtW]

I'd be more worried if they had gotten RAF as part of the deal.

HTH

[suityou01]

BBC News - Ministers criticised for sale of postcode database



stupid, stupid, stupid

This could go nuclear.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

It's a database which is covered by EU database rights.

It doesn't contain any personal data. It is just a list of addresses.

[OwlHoot]

It doesn't contain any personal data. It is just a list of addresses.

You could say the same about dates of birth, but it all erodes anonymity and makes it that much easier to pinch peoples' identities and send junk mail.