Antoinette
Common sense. Very refreshing. Thank you. I have waited a long time.
I suspect the vast majority of sensible members of this group would support
common sense.
Sensible Fred Foy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antoinette Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Subject Access Requests - disproportionate effort and relevant
fili ngsystem
> Aren't we all guilty here of not allowing common sense to prevail? I
would
> go back to the individual, explain the situation, and ask him if there
might
> be another way in which to find the specific information he wants. If
> you're straight with people, they are, on the whole prepared to be
> reasonable. I had a similar request once and it turned out they just
wanted
> a list of the courses they'd done to put it on their CV! I wouldn't be
> prepared to root through 266 archive boxes just to help an employee take
all
> the training we'd invested in them to another employer (Uh-oh, it's that
> Friday feeling taking hold once more!)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Bowden [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 23 January 2004 14:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Subject Access Requests -
> disproportionate effort and relevant fili ngsystem
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:16:05PM +0000, Emma Chilcott wrote:
> > if the answer above is 'yes', do we have sufficient grounds to say it
> > would be a 'disproportionate effort' to find the information
>
> This isn't what disproportionate effort means.
>
> Disproportionate effort is related to the provision of the information,
> not the collating of it in the first place.
>
> It's there to cover cases like fancy medical scans etc that can only be
> viewed with multi-million pound equipment. You still have to provide the
> information to the subject somehow, but not necessarily in a permanent
> form (e.g. letting them come see it)
>
> Tony
>
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