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Quoting directly from a 14-15 Oyster Photocard application form:
Section 2: Signature (Parent/Guardian's consent) (Mark [x] where appropriate)
I consent to the Metropolitan Police Service and other police forces in areas where TFL services operate transferring the information set out in Section 3 paragraph 5 (see page 4) for the purposes specified.
If you do wish to give such consent, mark [x] here [ ]. If you do so, the applicant will be eligible for the free travel concession on London's buses and trams.
If you do not wish to give such consent, mark [x] here [ ]. By doing so the applicant will not be eligible for the free travel concession on London's buses and trams.
To what Faustian pact does Section 3 paragraph 5 consign the souls of your children?
Section 3, Paragraph 5
If you have been granted the free travel concession on London's buses and trams and your parent/guardian has given consent in Section 2 overleaf, the Metropolitan Police Service, British Transport Police, City of London Police and other police forces in areas where TFL services operate may transfer to TFL details of any criminal convictions, warnings or reprimands, and the circumstances relating thereto, issued in relation to offences committed by you on the TFL public transport network. We will use this data for the purpose of ticket administration, including the possible withdrawal of the photocard and/or free travel concessions.
Draw your own conclusions.
3 comments:
Evil bastards. What the hell can I do?
Two weeks on and no-one has come up with the answer to your question, Shahid. How thoroughly disheartening.
Still, that's freedom for you; freedom to be tagged, logged, monitored, profiled, fined, followed, detained, disappeared and, ultimately, switched off at the whim of the state and the manifold private bodies that do its dirty work, or else pay the increasingly high price associated with resisting and refusing to submit.
I fail to understand why this should be a "Faustian pact." What it says is that if youngsters are not just badly behaved on public transport but commit acts which result in criminal records, then their free transport concession may be withdrawn. If that were to happen, law-abiding passengers (including law abiding young people) would have some protection against these young people repeatedly committing such acts at their expense; and they would suffer a real penalty for having carried out their dastardly acts. Good.
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