For observations / comment
1: Is a persons signature personal data ? Pre Durrant based on the DP Acts definition I would have argued yes..
2: Post Durrant is it still personal data when collected and processed in the following context?.
Your employer asks you to provide it for the first time as a data item for a 'contacts schedule' held as a page within a contract they are entering into with a third party service supplier?
As a consequence your personal signature will then be in the possession of both your employer (arguably for a staff admin use) and the third party service supplier (DPA purpose unclear). Your employer is likely to have had a copy when you were first employed on your application form and on many other documents subsequently e.g. paper memos. Leaving aside DPA an Employers strict duty of confidence on employment records would have appeared to give its use by the employer's employees some legal protection.
Given Durrant ruling does DPA apply at all to your signature as a datum and if not does either party have any defined security obligation at law to protect it from misuse? If so what law? e.g Anyone with any obligation to protect a signature from fraudulent use other than the individual themselves.
Views?
David Wyatt
Just had this occured and trying to point out the correlation of signature to DPA compliance given it is still only another item of personal data.
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