From: MX%"[log in to unmask]" "Carl Boardman" 15-AUG-2001 14:52:43.85
Can I please ask you to post this message on the Data Protection list? Many
thanks.
Carl Boardman
Oxfordshire Record Office
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From: Carl Boardman <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Data Protection phone enquiries
> I thought I had at least a general overview of Data Protection, but
> something has just cropped up in Oxfordshire. We've just been sent
"scripts"
> by the DP Administrator here which we're expected to read out to anyone
who
> rings us if we're going to make a note of the conversation which includes
> their name. Since we note every call in case it leads to anything further
or
> there is some comeback from it, this means that Mr Fortescue-Pimley who
> rings up to ask if we've got the Woodstock baptism registers and is told
yes
> has to be given the whole "I just need to record.... We may need to
share...
> Can I have an identifier... The Council will only use..." spiel, which
will
> actually take three times as long as the enquiry. I have suggested that
> surely this is not necessary if we aren't taking any details about Mr F-P
to
> go with his name, but the DP Administrator is worried about jigsaw data
> matching. I'm worried about being told I'm a bureaucratic twerp and having
> the phone slammed down.
>
> Have other offices been asked to do anything similar, and if so how are
they
> coping with it? Can anyone willing to share the experience please reply to
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Carl Boardman
> County Archivist
> Oxfordshire Record Office
>
> Oxfordshire Record Office is a section of Cultural Services in Oxfordshire
> County Council. The content of this message is directed specifically at
the
> addressee, and should not be taken out of context by any third party, nor
> should it be held to have any legal validity.
>
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