In message <20110116013139.GD10746@cat>
Francis Irving <[email protected]> wrote:
>Yes - to me the most shocking thing about MPs expenses was this.
>
>That is - before hand I had reckoned it was fair enough to redact MPs
>addresses for data protection reasons (I remember saying this to
>Heather Brook).
>
>But it turned out that she was right - the addresses were vital. So
>the only way of balancing the public and private nature of the data
>was for a third party (the Telegraph) to examine it, and play fair for
>both DPA of innocent MPs, and the public interest of detecting home
>flipping.
>
A compromise solution would be the post code less the last two letters?
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