Police regularly access Transport for London Oyster Card accounts

The Metropolitan Police now routinely requests access to Transport for London’s (TfL) Oyster Card database in search of personal information on its users, The Guardian has reported. After making a freedom of information request, TfL said this had happened 5,295 times in 2008, 5,359 in 2009, 5,046 in 2010, and a record 6,258 in 2011; […]