Note that there’s to be an exemption for investigative journalism.
This follows a major criminal investigation into several PI agencies who were committing serious crimes in the process of snooping on their subjects – crimes for which several of their employees are now doing prison time.
Requiring a criminal background record check, and evidence that a private eye has done a basic course in what they are and are not legally allowed to do, before they can sell their services doesn’t sound too onerous to me.
The devil, of course, may be hidden in the detail when the final legislation emerges …
