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

[Pete Stean]

Don, are you sure this isn't a scam, and that the information is available
for free via another route?? Can you tell us which "service" on the web
charges fees? Seems very strange

Pete


On 25/07/07, Don Williams <don at rose963.demon.co.uk> 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
>
>
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