At 09:21 02/02/00 GMT0BST, Paul Bell wrote:
>We are about to deliver some reports from our student records system
>over our intranet to members of staff. In particular this will
>include classlists (containing student reference number and name). It
>has been suggested by someone who may or may not be in favour of this
>development that this may be a breach of the DPA. I can see nothing
>of the sort but? I am assuming that the consent given to print
>reports out of the student records system would also apply to an
>electronic delivery and that as the reports are delivered over the
>intranet and are password protected, there should be no problem. Have
>I missed something?
This should all be covered under the "processing for educational
administration purposes" of the University's registration with the DPA.
Security should be considered - but, then again, as discussed previously
here, many universities publish classlists/degree results on "public"
notice boards.
ian
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Dr Ian W.F. Baxter
Student Finance & Awards Officer and Data Compliance Officer, Lucy
Cavendish College
Affiliated Scholar (Heritage & Tourism), Dept. Archaeology, Cambridge
University
Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, CB3 0BU. UK.
Tel: 01223 332186 Fax: 01223 332178
http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/
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