I agree with Peter and in fact when reading the draft FOI Bill (in Scotland)
it states that from experience in Northern Ireland where the Act is law out
o the 11K+ requests they had received, a vast majority of them were for
"personal data" which of course amount to SARs under the DP Act.
Doreen Broom
Data Administrator
Scottish Borders Council
Council HQ
Newtown St.Boswells
Melrose
Borders TD6 0SA
Tel: 01835 824000
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Wilson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 March 2001 16:20
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Disproportionate Effort!!!
>
> >>> "Okey, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]> 03/19/01 04:07pm >>>
> >>>>Meanwhile, we will have to face, in due course, the horrors of the FOI
> act, which will extend subject access rights to literally anything that
> refers to
> the subject (so no hiding behind having no filing system). ............
>
>
> Andrew,
> I understand (certainly FOI in Scotland which is modelled on the draft
> Westminster FOI bill) that any requests received "of a personal data"
> nature would be handled under DP and not FOI. i.e. No dual-access.
> (Except maybe in unstructured files? )
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Peter Wilson
> Data Protection Officer
> University of Paisley
>
>
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