Police Lost Property craziness....please help!!!

dmg24

As well as the data protection issue, there is also a copyright issue. The music on the ipod was owned (hopefully legally!) by the ipod's owner. For that music to be passed on to someone else without payment to the owner of the copyright would have legal implications.

It may sound petty, but there is good reasoning behind it.

warehouse

sporedude wrote: »

So your parents are thiefs? Okay. Cool.

And you're a tw4t. I'm cool with that too.

ChrisCobra

warehouse wrote: »

And you're a tw4t. I'm cool with that too.

To be fair , slagging people off dont help.
And neither does taking someones lost money at the next oppertunity.

Wouldnt like it if you lost 200 quid at xmas would you surely ?

tandraig

sporedude? you dont know why your parents werent thanked. Could it be that in their wisdom the police wouldnt give their names and addresses to the owner of the wallet (under the guise of dpa?)? the owner was prob deeply grateful and includes your parents in his nightly prayers - albeit without thier names!

dmg24

tandraig wrote: »

sporedude? you dont know why your parents werent thanked. Could it be that in their wisdom the police wouldnt give their names and addresses to the owner of the wallet (under the guise of dpa?)? the owner was prob deeply grateful and includes your parents in his nightly prayers - albeit without thier names!

The police will usually pass on a note or gift in this situation.

superscaper

The police are talking nonsense. And all the "data protection" reasons are rubbish as well.

And I'll tell you why in one reason:

The police seem to have no problem auctioning off found or recovered ipods (and they're not even necessarily/guaranteed tested never mind "formatted"/wiped/checked).

Esqui

Sounds like they're taking it for their own use. You should report them to the po-

Damn.

superscaper

I thought I was having deja-vous:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=594585

(I don't even remember most of my posts on that thread, lol)

LemonGrove

All this fuss over keeping someone else's iPod? I wouldn't even have one given.

It's a shame you didn't get it yes but it's not really something worth dithering over, you didn't lose out on anything.

shellsmithcat

I know from experience that data protection rules are well OTT, you can't even call the hospitals any more for information on dying relatives (won't go there now). This police policy must have made you wild - what were they trying to say that you were one of the 0.1% of people capable of hacking - or that you were going to use the information contained on the ipod in some criminal way ( can't think how) LOL
Stupid rules and laws and policy - all drives me nuts