[claudius]

> Who gets the money are the people who create laws. The more crimes commited, the safer there jobs are.

Hu? Of course the jobs of people working at ICO etc are slightly safer if more criminal activity happens, but office workers at ICO do not get that money. It goes to the treasury and hence, by extension, the British public.

> The people who had there data stolen, are now on a register sold to the insurance industry, and the insurance industry decides they are a greater risk to insure, so the costs to the consumer go up. Strange how crime really drives the economy.

The fine punishing a criminal activity nearly nowhere goes to the actual victim of the crime, the victim is instead compensated in a second payment. Of course it would be nice if in addition to this fine, some kind of blanket compensation mechanism (e.g. 1000€ per datum per person) would be installed.