What strikes me is that each of us have MPs. Each of us is responsible for
one or more organisations and their data privacy practices, and each of us
does work that stands up well to scrutiny. So, writing to our MPs to say
"This law is not being enforced well by the organisation responsible to
parliament for enforcing it" and giving cogent and coherent reasoning is a
good thing to do.
Better enforcement of the law enhances us personally, and increases our
organisational value. AND we each have a tremendous head start in
implementing the law, so we are not in danger from a stricter regime of
enforcement.
To me this is win/win.
Benefits to us:
* Enhanced status
* Enhanced cash
* Enhanced job security for the employed, more contracts for the self
employed
Benefits to the public
* Enhanced privacy
* Enhanced privacy
* Enhanced privacy
Need I say more?
Oh, your MP may be found at
"The Member for (give the town if you don't; know the constituency)
The House of Commons
London"
I suppose you need a postcode, really, but frankly I don't see the need to
bother! It gets a lot of mail.
If you do know their name, try email! Mine responds well to email.
-----Original Message-----
From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tony Bowden
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] SAR
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:07:23AM -0000, Tim Trent wrote:
> It's time for some ACTION. I am sick of education. This is a set of
> laws that are not being enforced. Lack of enforcement leads to total
abuse.
Agreed. I've had several letters from the OIC now that say, in effect, "The
company has not complied, but as they've promised to do better in future
we're not going to do anything".
Of course this is usually followed by the company not doing even the things
they've promised to do this time ...
Tony
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