In the long run you cannot make some serious decisions without knowing what the Law is or is likely to be. Neither can you call your lawyer to advise you at eve

In the long run you cannot make some serious decisions without knowing what the Law is or is likely to be. Neither can you call your lawyer to advise you at every decision. Large companies operate on the "what we can get away with" principle, which of you put it in the context of this forum is a Law hack. For example earlier today the telephone company O2 in the UK was lambasted for including people's telephone number in the header of all http requests of every site visited on a mobile device. Someone somewhere made that decision not knowing it was illegal, perhaps not even stopping to think about it. Or alternatively they made the decision in full knowledge that it was illegal, but so obscure that Joe Public would probably not find it or understand the implications even if they did discover it.