Absolutely, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I wonder if anyone has tried refusing to disclose citing section 7(4) yet?
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Has anyone found support in the 1995 EU directive or in the Parliamentary
debates to support the Information Commissioner's interpretation of s. 7(4)
to allow a confidential reference to be withheld by the recipient
institution only where (1) the the identity of the author of the reference
or (2) information about someone other than the author and the data subject
is discoverable from the reference?
S. 7(4) states "Where a data controller cannot comply with the request
without disclosing information relating to another individual who can be
identified from that information, he is not obliged to comply with the
request [unless certain conditions apply e.g. it is reasonable in all the
circumstances to comply without the individual's consent]"
S.7(5) states that s.7(4) "includes a reference to information identifying
that individual as the source of the information sought by the request".
What is there to stop s.7(4) being interpreted to require a reference to be
withheld because the author's opinion can be discovered from the reference?
Isn't that "information relating to another individual"?
Rosemary Pattenden, UEA, Norwich
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