Re:Australian local council intercepted phone, email data to...
by goatforce5 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:09AM
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The article is really unclear, but to me it sounds like they were doing reverse phone lookups.
Illegal advertising - get the details of the number on the poster.
Unregistered pets - maybe they have an 'if found please call ...' tag on the pet, but no pet registration.
People dumping stuff illegally - if you were dumping general household/office waste, you'd probably have letters or bills with your address on it already, but I can think of scenarios where they might only have your email address to go on.
Illegal advertising - get the details of the number on the poster.
Unregistered pets - maybe they have an 'if found please call ...' tag on the pet, but no pet registration.
People dumping stuff illegally - if you were dumping general household/office waste, you'd probably have letters or bills with your address on it already, but I can think of scenarios where they might only have your email address to go on.