In message , at 17:31:38 on Sun, 15
May 2011, Paul Terry remarked:

Yes, and your Borisbike data if you sign up for that as well. It's
supposed to be all above board - developed in collaboration with the
GLA. They get round the data protection act by only releasing personal
data to the person concerned ... at least until such time as the
hackers break in.

That's OK if the people asking you to let them be a proxy for your data
access are honest.

The problems start (and I assume this is where Tfl's email comes in)
when similar sounding schemes are actually being run by scammers.

The trouble is, the TfL email discourages you from a relationship with
even the honest intermediaries.

How can you tell one from the other? TfL could list the approved ones,
perhaps.
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Roland Perry