** Reply to note from "Okey, Andrew" <[log in to unmask]> Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:36:43 -0000
> Charles - this may not quite fit the situation you have in mind but Peter
> Bloomfield has warned me that a confidential report (e.g. what a boss may write
> about their employee after annual appraisal)which does not operate as a
> reference is therefore management information, and should be available under
> subject access rules. Basically, the reference exemption in no way applies to
> something that isn't a reference (as the DP act defines the term)!
Yeap. That made me think.
My logic was, an author of a report HAS TO give access to a _confidential_
report. Why don't we also give access to references at source and be done
with it.
Thanks to all who replied.
Charles
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information Group, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom.
Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-201604.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/ http://somis2.ais.dundee.ac.uk/
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