I'm so pleased that my email address is being held up as an example,
although I'm a little confused as to why my message never appeared on the
list!
I should be registered because I receive everyone else's emails!
I use this particular email account because it avoids spam getting to my
work email account. If you want to contact me at my official email address,
it's stewart.turner [at] metoffice [dot] com.
Regards,
Stewart Turner.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Trent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Email Address - Personal Data?
> Now I can see why you are stating that [log in to unmask] is hard to use
to
> identify a living individual. But trying to classify this in the same
> manner as D.O.B. is not valid logic. You may, of course, be trying to be
> the ego in "Reductio ad absurdum", but I feel the logic does not flow down
> this channel.
>
> Today "[log in to unmask]" is a unique email address. Later, after it
> expires, should it do so anyone may pick it up and use it. But today it
is
> sufficient to identify the user (albeit inefficient at doing so). It is a
> private email address and thus may not receive UCE if in the EEA, and the
> individual at that address may make legitimate complaint if they receive
> UCE.
>
> No-one ever said definitions were easy. No-one even said the load of
> legislation was good law!
>
>
> Tim Trent - Consultant
> Direct: +44(0)1344 392644 Mobile:+44(0)7710 126618
> email: [log in to unmask]
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> United Kingdom, RG12 1BP
> http://www.marketingimprovement.com
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tony Bowden
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Email Address - Personal Data?
>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:28:54AM +0100, Cashmore, Stuart wrote:
> > We've just had a reply to Doreen's e-mail about her son's photo
> > appearing in the newspaper. It came from "[log in to unmask]". Could
> > those who believe an e-mail address is personal data explain how the
> > individual behind that address can be identified from it?
>
> As I've said before, there's a big difference between a datum being
> personal, and a datum being sufficient to identify an individual.
>
> Consider someone's date of birth.
>
> It's very very unlikely you'd be able to identify someone from it, but is
> anyone seriously claiming that it's not personal data?
>
> Tony
>
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