In reply to off-duty:
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> Obviously?
> As for groundless - I'll take it as it's English meaning - without grounds.
> IE - Not proportionate or necessary (let alone legal).
I take it OD that , like my sister in the Health Service, your activities on these databases are heavily monitored, and you have to justify your enquiries( or get the sack)
I do know that my sister is questioned occasionally when she has accessed files, and has to be able to show that she needed to access it to do her job, rather than just poke around, in which case she could be suspended or sacked.
So , if this is the case, hen it is not quite as easy as some people seem to think, for just anyone to snoop around into your private information. Same applied to my BIL when he was doing your line of work some years back.