It was my understanding from various conferences, discussions etc (alas I
cannot pin it down) that "vital" in this context was intended to refer
solely to genuine life or death situations - e.g. where the disclosure of a
data subject's medical history is pertinent actually to saving their life.
If this is so, the reference to "vital" below is not so relevant, unless the
disciplinary is as a result of a member of staff attempting to decapitate
another! I suppose we shall have to wait until case law decides this, as so
many other things to do with this exciting legislation.
Tim
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A point for debate, given the content of recent discussions
which have
arisen over email, access rights and staff information.
The Act does not appear in the definition of sensitive
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Subject: Re: The Act and Email
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There is a Briefing Paper/Article in this weeks IT Week (28 Aug - P49) on "Email policies and the law"
Peter
Peter Wilson
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>>> <[log in to unmask]> 08/29/00 07:52am >>>
In a message dated 28/08/2000 10:31:23 GMT Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
<< My question is this: Should I therefore keep this incident to myself, as
requested by the sender, or should the police be informed?
Of course, there are some exceptions, most famously if the Sec of State
signs a warrant for a policeman to intercept a suspect; but in our
commercial/public-body world the more interesting are those in the DTI's
proposed Lawful Business Practice regulations. >>
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I think the answer may be to not address your e-mails to individuals, but to
organisations or groups (e.g.) [log in to unmask]
Or, in reality (seems a strange way to describe RIPA), just address them to"
the whole world" - after all, (potentially) all the world can read your
e-mails sent over the Net. Oh, and they might also read your internal
e-mails as well if your security is relying on certain commercially-available
firewall software.
Ian Buckland
MD
Keep IT Legal Ltd
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