{"id":105,"date":"2006-03-13T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=105"},"modified":"2006-03-13T17:31:59","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T17:31:59","slug":"police-requests-for-oyster-data-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Police requests for Oyster data rises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oyster data use rises in crime clampdown
\nStaff and agencies
\nMonday March 13, 2006<\/p>\n

Police hunting criminals are increasingly seeking information from electronically stored travel records, such as those created by users of the popular Oyster card in London.<\/p>\n

Figures disclosed today show a huge leap in police requests to Transport for London, which operates the Oyster cards used to travel on buses, trains and the underground.<\/p>\n

Just seven information requests were made by police in the whole of 2004, compared with 61 requests made in January this year alone…<\/p>\n

http:\/\/technology.guardian.co.uk\/news\/story\/0,,1730002,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n

This was bound to happen of course.<\/p>\n

If you really want to have an Oyster card, (and TFL gives you a good reason to use one; bus fares are \u00a31 with Oyster instead of \u00a31.50 when you pay cash for example) you must:<\/p>\n