[Gllug] [OT] ripping us off with our data

[John Levin]

Don Williams wrote:
> Hi there, have any GLLUG members come across the monstrous rip-off being
> exacted by the "keepers of others' data" - the family connection website
> and those lovely so-truly-blairite-they-smell-of-it people selling off
> our data?
> 	Go seek your family history on the web. Discover, as did I, that you
> will need a "voucher" to access our own national records. Read that the
> message from the government's lackeys is that the vouchers (@ £5 a nob)
> are available at Post Offices.
> 	Nope. An afternoon queueing in and traipsing between South London Post
> Offices affirmed that that was yet another privatising lie.
> 	Card to the ready, we begrudgingly bought a fiver's worth of "voucher"
> on the website - the Blairite caption talking of "500 credits" and
> "small charges" (stop laughing, you lot!).
> 	Five hours later we two pensioners retired from the field, angry,
> tired, a tenner lighter and with not much more data than when we
> started.
> 	So there goes yet another middle-class shutdown of the fruit of
> Victorian labours.
> 	I don't care about our history now. I can't afford to any more because
> they privatised it.
> 	Will no-one stop these evil, grasping, tiny-minded children of
> Thatcher?
> 	Don Williams
> 
> 

What website are you talking about? It doesn't sound like the national 
archives (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ ).

Give us an URL, and we will be able to raise hell about it.

John Levin
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