No worries Fuzzy, i may have been over sensitive (shoot the messenger and all that).

The real reasons it's there, are for the reasons we've all come to, imo - there's no need for it to be a public site whatsoever. The police and relevant insurers who may need the info, already have access to it....

Normally, data protection requirements are to be met by the body holding the data, not by anyone saying "Yes, I will only use this info within the legal requirements" by ticking a box on a web page, lol.