In a message dated 26/04/2001 08:37:41 GMT Daylight Time,
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<< Information on the name of the name of a person's employer is
used solely as a further aid to the accurate coding of the type of
industry by reference to the Inter-Departmental Business Register
(IDBR) - a list of large employers already classified by type of
industry. Responses to the question will not be used to produce
any information on named individual employers.
Responses to the question on address of place of work will show
the destination of individual journeys to work in relation to the usual
address, which will normally be the origin of the journey, and will, in
combination with the response to the mode of transport to work
question, will provide information on travel to work patterns. >>
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Aah, but has it not already been stated that a public interest argument
exists for data matching exercises involving all government information for
the purposes of fraud prevention and detection?
Would not this data be very useful to identify which employers are actually
declaring that they have these people on their books? Of course if the
individuals are in receipt of benefits and know what they are doing is wrong
they would be foolish to put down that they were working.
Surely no-one completing the form would be foolish enough to think the
information will be held by the ONS in confidence . . .
. . . disclosure to other government departments doesn't count.
To take my paranoia one step further, if they match this data with Inland
Revenue and supermarket loyalty data they'll have a complete profile of me
and they could datamatch this with Experian's files and produce an exception
report to fill in the gaps in the electoral register and 192.com's database.
You'd be paranoid too if everyone was against you all the time.
Marvin PA
Keep IT Legal Ltd
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