[LINK] privacy protection for phone number database

[Glen Turner]

Stephen Loosley wrote:

> However the communications minister could authorise the
 > use of the data for research in the public interest,
 > for example health and medical research.

The lack of access to the IPND has been a bugbear for
public health researchers for some years, since the
listing of people in the phone book is skewed towards
affluent and male.