On Feb 4, 6:43*pm, Mizter T wrote:
On 4 Feb, 18:13, Paul Corfield wrote:





On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:10:36 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message
, at
06:43:38 on Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Mizter T remarked:
Please note that a limited number of authorised individuals within TfL
can access Oyster card data and no external organisations have direct
access to the data.

Yet, but one more terrorist outrage and it will go the way of Congestion
Charging, with all the data available to the police.

I may have missed it but where is the statement that said that the 7/7
attackers used Oyster cards to travel on the system and that the data
was used to track them - either on pre-attack surveillance trips or on
the day itself? * I thought it was CCTV recordings that were used to
identify their movements on the day and beforehand?

My reading of what Roland said, which was basically confirmed in his
later reply to one of my posts upthread, was that he was referring to
police getting access to the Congestion Charge system and cameras.

To my knowledge there was no mention of Oyster at all with regards to
the July 7th bombings investigation - I don't recall it being
mentioned at all with regards to the later July 21st failed bombings
either.



It is so ridiculously easy to travel legally on London's Transport
network and not use Oyster I fail to see why the data would be made
fully accessible to the police if we were to have another attack. *If it
was done then I suspect that confidence in the system would decline or
disappear and people would switch to non Oyster ticketing.

I concur with your thoughts. My reading of the various TfL statements
or responses that relate to privacy, access and security of the Oyster
database suggest that they are very well aware of their crucial role
as a custodian of this data too.-

No matter how little confidence people had in the system, raising the
cash fares sufficiently would have the desired effect.