In message , at 18:13:05 on
Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Paul Corfield 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?

You have imagined that scenario.

Every new big terrorist "event" causes yet more emergency legislation
and more invasion of privacy (I won't start a debate about how justified
it is, but that's plainly what happens).

We've had the Congestion Charging mission creep (July 07) and the Oyster
Card data is simply another box to tick.

--
Roland Perry