The DPA provides precisely the protection both Tim and the others state.
The history behind the DPA indicates the legislation was originally intended
to protect privacy though.
There are sufficient exemptions contained within the DPA to allow for no
individual privacy at all, should it be wished. The DPA is clearly there
primarily for organisational and commercial protection, rather than
protecting an individuals privacy.
Which is why it provides so many opportunities for organisations to abuse
the individual trust put in them.
Consider High Speed Gas and Goldfish. Was that a one off, which people
learned from, or are similar abuses ongoing today?
Ian W
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Turner,Tim
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> Sent: 13 February 2003 10:17
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> Subject: Re: What Use is Notification?
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>
> Without wishing to create a huge digression...
>
> This question presupposes that the Data Protection Act might exist to
> protect privacy. The word privacy does not appear anywhere in
> the Act. The
> emphasis on privacy that comes from the Information
> Commissioner relies on
> Article 8 of the Human Rights Act and the subsequent link
> with the 'lawful'
> bit of DPA, rather than anything inherent in DPA that
> protects privacy. I've
> always thought the Data Protection Act as a series of
> procedures to regulate
> how personal information is used, rather than something based on more
> fundamental principles. If we have a right to privacy, it's from the
> European Convention on Human Rights, rather than DP.
>
> Therefore my answer to this question is definitely yes.
>
> Just a thought
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ian Welton [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:49 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [data-protection] What Use is Notification?
> >
> > So is data protection more about assuring accuracy of a
> data subjects data
> > and then giving control to an organisation
> > as a means of facilitating organisational efficiency and
> social cohesion
> > than protecting individual privacy?
> >
> >
>
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