"I do not wish this criminal breach of the Data Protection Act"
Umm, I'm not a lawyer so take this with a pinch of salt. But looking at the Data Protection Act I'm not sure that I can that, even prima facie, an offense has been committed.
The act refers to data, most of the references and definitions of which are to do with additions to a database. That is, the definitions of data which are covererd by the Act are to do with data that can be manipulated (or are entered into a database which could be manipulated) automatically.
That's really rather different from a video of someone. The standard law on photography (which extends, yes, to videos) is that a photo or video belongs to whoever took (filmed) it. To do with as they wish. If you film a car crash and sell the tape to Sky, you don't have to have the permission of those in the cars to do so. The tape is yours as you shot it.
As I say, I'm not a lawyer so I can clearly have got the wrong end of the stick here. But can anyone tell me what the `criminal`offence actually is?
I'm aware of all the other aspects here, it's the legal bit I'm having problems with: a video isn't an entry into a database and the law appears, at least to me, to be quite different.
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