** Reply to note from "Watters, David" <[log in to unmask]> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 17:09:54 +0100
> We are obviously telling staff the reasons for gathering this data, but are
> not certain where some of the responsibility (in respect to dp)for the
> research information should lie. Should we obtain written consent from staff
> for the data that we will maintain in-house? Also, do we require consent to
> submit some of this data to the external agency? And finally, does the
> agency require consent, in any form, from our staff to publish these details
> on their website?
Yo bro, you sound like a bro in similar pain.
You are talking SRIS aren't you? :-) (Sorry folks :-) Scottish Research
Information System).
You should not need consent for internal processing, storing etc. Putting
material on your website, ouh ehhh ehmmmmm, as long as the staff have been
clearly informed if they do not object you can do (pure DP says that you
must have express consent).
Now, I am a little more skeptical that because we could come to some
arrangement to publish data on our web site, we could jist hand it
over to be published on some other site. Then we are not in control of
that data.
Watch out that whatever you do your staff are individually and clearly
informed and they have the right to object. Watch out that the Head of
department does not send you the information and the academics are never
told.
I shall be good and not criticize publicly SRIS any more.
:-)
Charles
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