BNP list?

[Blink]

Anyone seen it?

Anyone checked to see if their neighbours are on it?

I have heard rumours that it is available on torrent sites.

[Fenbane]

Anyone seen it?

Anyone checked to see if their neighbours are on it?

I have heard rumours that it is available on torrent sites.

I have an ex boyfriend on it! He never was very bright and I dumped him a long time ago....

[Alexander]

I've got a copy of the list; there's only one person from Greenwich on there though.

It's not me btw!

I would bring a copy of the list to Slimelight tonight but it's over 1700 pages long.

I suppose I could put it up here on the site if anyone wants a look...

[Blink]

I suppose I could put it up here on the site if anyone wants a look...

What was that?

Did you say "Google torrents and BNP"?

[DerOberst]

My exes brother is on it! its really funny this guy had the argument that if you listened to death in june you where gay and needed to be killed! And therefore because death in june are my favourite band I must be gay as well:D I'm still waiting to be killed!!

[Alexander]

Did you say "Google torrents and BNP"?

It's easier than that to get hold of (as if a torrent wasn't easy enough).

My exes brother is on it!

And his name is... ;)

[batfink]

http://www.bnpnearme.co.uk/

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/British_National_Party_membership_and_contacts_lis t%2C_2007-2008

Tee-hee!

[CIW]

so spreading the list around is ok?

protect data under data protection laws, but screw it if it's BNP?

O_o

[Dr_absinthe]

so spreading the list around is ok?

protect data under data protection laws, but screw it if it's BNP?

O_o

As soon as you donate to a party then your details are immediately made public, it's part of the package. I'm sure there are BNP voters in Milton Keynes, yet none of them show up as they aren't donators.

It's a funny old world...

[Alexander]

so spreading the list around is ok?

protect data under data protection laws, but screw it if it's BNP?

O_o

Once something is made public it cannot be unmade public, once it has been seen it cannot be unseen. A complaint has been lodged with the police with regards to the data protection act, but so far it hasn't been acted on. It's like a car crash, only the person driving the car gets in trouble, but everyone will stop and gawp at one. So it basically comes down to personal morality. Leaking it was a breach of the data protection act, looking at it isn't, but if you don't want to look at the list then don't look at it.

Don't look at it here: http://wikileaks.org/leak/bnp-membership-list.txt
Or here: http://media.evilkeg.co.uk/downloads/bnp-membership-list.txt
Or any other of the dozens of sites out there.

Absinthe is incorrect about it being a donators list; it's a member list. There appear to be 39 members living in Milton Keynes as well.

[Blink]

so spreading the list around is ok?

protect data under data protection laws, but screw it if it's BNP?

O_o

Not sure anyone here spreading the list around, but merely telling people where the information is in the public domain.

I should imagine that it is actually the BNP that are guilty of a breach of the DPA as they are the people who have failed to hold confidential information securely, which is one of the basic tenets of the act, you could also argue that they have failed to keep the data up to date and also have held it for longer than necessary (this all depends on when the information was obtained - although I find it hard to believe that someone had it and sat on it for 2 - 3 years before making it public)


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4. Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
7. Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.


Data Protection Act (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/Acts/Acts1998/ukpga_19980029_en_1)

Indeed, the members could sue the BNP for failing to protect their data

13 Compensation for failure to comply with certain requirements (1) An individual who suffers damage by reason of any contravention by a data controller of any of the requirements of this Act is entitled to compensation from the data controller for that damage.
(2) An individual who suffers distress by reason of any contravention by a data controller of any of the requirements of this Act is entitled to compensation from the data controller for that distress if—


Also, the DPA isn't designed to protect whistleblowers:


32 Journalism, literature and art (1) Personal data which are processed only for the special purposes are exempt from any provision to which this subsection relates if—
(a) the processing is undertaken with a view to the publication by any person of any journalistic, literary or artistic material,
(b) the data controller reasonably believes that, having regard in particular to the special importance of the public interest in freedom of expression, publication would be in the public interest, and
(c) the data controller reasonably believes that, in all the circumstances, compliance with that provision is incompatible with the special purposes.


I think many people would contend that this information is in the public interest - there are policemen on that list who aren't allowed to be members for a start

I think the Data Protection Act is more to do with ensuring that the holders of the information act appropriately and prevent things like this happening, it isn't designed to prevent people from publishing information that has come in to their possesion due to the owner of the information failing to adhere to the act.

I would suggest that a more appropriate avenue would be the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects privacy.

Can someone confirm what the BNP's stance is on Europe and the European Union, I may be incorrect here as I don't keep up to date with them, but I thought they wanted us to withdraw from that, so I guess they are unlikely invoke that.