All in all then it is a question of ‘ Min ma jilhaqx l-gheneb jghid li hu qares’

Do you agree with this?

And here’s a bit of irony for you. In the UK, common law holds that citizens do not have a right to privacy. This might seem as a contradiction to the basic fundamental freedom of the right to private family life etc., But it isn’t. Hard as it may seem to understand (time and space do not permit, and besides I wouldn’t want to bore your readers to tears) it actually is consonant with it.

Fact is though, that in a country where citizens protest to the state against the introduction of identity cards, claiming that this breaches their privacy, in a state where the jus comune dictates no blanket right to privacy, the Data Protection Directive is implemented in the most limited manner.

There is no hogwash about a breach of one’s privacy if a newspaper decides to grace its pages with, say, a photo of yours truly if it was taken in a public place. No truck is held with idiotic parents refusing the taking of photographs during a school play.

No circumventing of laws intended to preserve the public interest in favour of the Data Protection Directive, as those now prohibiting individuals from discovering who’s who in the company register, the electoral register, reverse directories and many more instances such as these making it impossible to file cases properly, enforce judgements and generally allow scum to get away with all sorts of commercial shenanigans.

Bereft of the capacity to legitimately obtain information in order to sue (and be sued) as may be one’s wont and right has created a climate of frustration for those seeking justice through the courts. Naturally, seeking justice on an administrative level, something this that has always been something of a nightmare here, is now virtually impossible.

And all this is due to the twerps who inhabited the corridors of the Data Protection Commissioner’s offices – and some of the Commissioners themselves, when this whole thing started. But this is what happens when you have people who are completely untrained not just in this particular area of the law, but for the most part, untrained generally.

Should this be confidential as well?

No further comment is necessary.