Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transparency. Show all posts

Friday, 8 May 2009

Psst! Wanna buy some data?

Hey, wanna buy the email addresses of all the firms and individuals who've signed up with Bristol City Council with an interest in providing services to their Cycling City Project? Think of the 'targeted marketing' opportunites that could open up. Shall we say half a ton for 350 addies?

How did I get my hands on all those email addies? Well, to be honest and transparent about it, guv, the Council's Cycling City team handed the whole lot out to each and every person on the list, all 350 of them, by not blind copying! Effing unbelievable innit? Commercially confidential information just copied willy-nilly to every Tom, Dick and Harry. Look, let's call it a pony for the lot. Can't say fairer than that guv.

You've already been offered the list for a score? OK, make it a tenner. I'm robbing myself but I've gotta admit it's a buyers market when half the shysters and scammers in the west have already got their hands on it. There you go, guv, but better get your spam out before the poor sods have had time to change their email addresses.