** Reply to note from Tony Bowden <[log in to unmask]> Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:12:26 +0100
> > "[log in to unmask]" is sufficient to identify me whereas
> > "enquiries@.." is not.
>
> What if multiple people in the same company have the same name?
I think David Wyatt was bored last night
The email address will be still unique. So if you have a J(ohn) Smith who is at
marketing and a J(oanne) Smith at manufacturing the email system will have to be
able to separate them. In our case we add extra initials, others may use
subdomains etc.
Unless one of the very basics of the act has fallen on its head, ie. that personal
data are any information which can be used to identify a living individual which
and which is in the posession or may come in the posession of the data
controller.
So even if one does not know who [log in to unmask] is ... if together with
other information it can be used to identify a living individual then it is personal
data.
My point is that in most instances an email address will be personal data EVEN if
it does not show a person's actual name on it.
The exception to the rule would be the so called generic addresses, eg.
[log in to unmask] which could be answer by a team of people ... and if the
responses do not include the sales person personal details.
Charles
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Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-348845.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/ ::egothor http://www.egothor.org/
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