How does this conflict with the information from CERT that we should
try not to have anonymous logons.
We have had cases of defamatory messages being sent from such
accounts, which fortunately have not led to litigation - but this
cannot be guaranteed in the future.
Ricky
On 17 Feb 2000 11:08:10 +0000 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Anonymous e-mail does not constitute Personal Data unless the
pseudonym is > held by the Data User in a separate place and the person
can be identified > fully from that information.
> If you retain anonymous information (for some reason?) then this is
still > not Personal Data.. Obviously if an enquirer gives all the
necessary > identification details, then this is Personal Data and will
need to be > processed under the Act, with all considerations of
security, length of > retention etc. Hope members agree?
> > Roy Candy
> DPO > Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
>
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Ricky Rankin
Principal Analyst
Computing Services
tel +44 28 90 273819
fax +44 28 90 230592
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