Dear Colleagues
Interesting discussion _ I have done an article on photographs and their
use. It is available
At www.actnow.org.uk
Also there is a note on use of photos by schools
all of which may add to this discussion
Regards
Ibrahim Hasan
Act Now Training
www.actnowtraining.co.uk
Information Law Training for the Public Sector
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Trent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Pics! (was "Schools etc)
> THAT is the point
>
> A physical description just says what a slab of meat and blood and bone
> looks like. What it does not do, without any other information, is to
> identify that person. I argue the same about photographs. This is
> especially true nowadays with digital imaging technology where one face
can
> be edited onto another body. How many REAL pictures are there of regular
> movie stars in flagrante delicious, for example? I was sent, the other
day,
> a picture of a person I am 100% certain, bar the circumstances of the
> picture, is a friend of mine from my school days doing something he is
most
> unlikely to have done. Double? Edited picture? I have no idea.
>
> Now my name is not unique. A Google search on "Tim Trent" reveals several
> of me (Loads of unimaginative parents I suppose!). My photograph is not
> unique either. Some other poor swine is likely to be my doppelganger
> somewhere in the world. So I see neither as "Data capable of identifying
a
> living individual". It is only when those two are put together (eg at
> http://www.marketimprove.com/staff/trent.html) that it becomes possible to
> identify me.
>
> Now, from this picture you may also guess my ethnicity, and quite possibly
> my state of health, as well as identifying me absolutely within the
meaning
> of the DPA.
>
> SO, a picture is either "Data capable of identifying a living individual"
or
> not, and if it is, then surely it is "Sensitive Data"?
>
> The IC says the former and says no to the latter. To me this is
> inconsistent. And I still argue (Don Quixote? More like Sancho Panza
some
> days) that a picture is not of itself capable of identifying anything.
Note
> the words "of itself".
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Welton
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Oh great. Schools and DPA
>
> Tim Trent on Sunday, December 07, 2003 at 10:09 AM said:-
>
> > Of course we are then back to the debate about a picture, on its own,
> > being personal data. Which I believe it is not, but the IC states is.
>
> What is the difference between a physical description of a person, and a
> picture?
>
> Ian W
> [snip]
>
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