The volume difficulty is not restricted to universities.
It does rather seem that it is more interesting collecting new data than
destroying old. Could it be that it is more comfortable to build (collect)
than destroy (weed)?
Additional issues of data being seen as an organisational asset also causes
problems. Getting the right argument in place showing that the asset is
more costly to maintain than destroy is not easy when the retention of it,
if data protection is 'got around', are often minimal.
Ian W.
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From: "Simon Laverty" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Application of DP
> I would be interested to know what DP officers who work in Universities
> think the problem with data protection is. I have been researching this
for
> some time now, and I consider the only problem being the sheer volumes of
> data that need to be processed as the Act itself does not seem to be
> complicated. Am I just being very naive or is the problem with DP volume?
>
> thank you for any contributions.
>
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