As Antoinette says, that part of the questionnaire is not an *exemption*
from the Act, merely an exemption from the requirement to notify. Perhaps
the OIC should make it clearer to people using this form, as the very fact
of them using this form implies that they may not (yet) be experts in DPA.
Simon Howarth.
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Sent: 06 December 2004 16:48
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Subject: [data-protection] Does the scope of the DPA 1998 includes Manual
Data?
Am I going mad? Late for last Friday or early for the next...
The UK Information Commissioner's notification guidance published for the
1998 Act:-
http://forms.informationcommissioner.gov.uk/notify/self/question2.html
for online self assessment notification guide (also the pdf version)
Question 2:
Q2 IS ANY OF YOUR PROCESSING ON COMPUTER?
ANSWER:
If none of your processing is carried out on computer there is no
requirement to notify.
... It then goes on to define computer...
QUERY:
Surely whilst this was true of the Data Protection Act 1984 it is misleading
advice for the DPA 1998?
Even after Durant? Even if we all argue about exactly what a Structuresd
Manual Record consists of?
Am I going mad? Late for last Friday or early for the next...
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