davidwyatt wrote:
>I accept that the then Commissioners guide expressed the view you indicate.
>But it was only a guide view albeit from the commissioner. Decisions will be
>made in court if controllers choose to challenge.
>
>David Wyatt
>
>
Oh dear me. You can make me turn religious. And then I should be
orthodox thingie midgie ... whatever it is.
Let us just roll over and die because the courts might rule something or
other. Do nothing is the best approach now, right?
The courts, and some particular judges, have also ruled on many things
and were discredited later on. Let us jail some young mothers to set an
example for the rest of society or jail anyone who is Irish (Catholic)
in case they have spoken to an IRA member or anyone who is a Muslim,
OK? What is your point?. An email address does not identify a person?
Well it does TOGETHER with other information the data controller MAY
have or MAY obtain. That OTHER information on its own may not identify
an individual either but when you put the whole thing together you get a
profile of that individual. In some instances an email address is as
good as a postal address, esp. like for the majority of the people on
this list who use an employer's address.
OK ... let me look in my crystal ball and see what is your past. (Being
a peson of opolopoulopoulos origin, we have the oringinal Oracle, so I
should know about Oracling). Please bear in mind that I am not trying
too hard and putting events in time and place is a matter of just
looking a bit deeper in the data that I may have or may come accross.
You are or have been a DP manager at some city Union insurance company.
Maybe you had something like a crest round your head (maybe crest co
ltd) .You may be now involved with fire in a capital city. 192.com says
that there are over 200 people whose name rhymes with yours (you don't
think that I am going to pay to find your likely post code) and 42 with
a medical record (I sincerely hope you are not one of them because then
I would have sensitive data attached to your email address). Given you
don't have a web page, and you neither have an email address like
"floozie" (or is it floosie) you don't use your work email address on
the internet and you are not of the nerdie disposition. So you are a
good worker, you work long hours, you may also take some short holidays
(else you would not have waited for a week or so for a response).
Given your view of email addresses and understanding of their uniqueness
I wonder if you are pictured here: (yeap the good looking one with the
long hair)
http://www.its-prof-again.co.uk/aboutdavid.htm (search fo wyatt to find
the relevant text)
So later on in life you joined the real world (unlike us types who live
in ivory towers). So after the insurance business did you you become one
of the persons posing at the top of this page (full monty girls, David
dressed as a fireman)
http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/about_this_site/copyright.asp
Can we rest the case of email addresses now? I always thought that
after Friday topics are not carried over.
:-)
Charles
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Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-348845.
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