On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:19:59PM +0100, Duncan Smith wrote:
> Simply browsing a web site (cookies 'n all) is unlikely to cause much of a
> problem, as this data is mostly anonymous i.e. not personal data. But once
> we start to identify an individual (forms, Amazon style log-ins etc) this
> data is personal.
Not that it matters.
BlackStar.co.uk (now Sendit.com) log your cookie information (which,
if you are a registered user is enough to identify you, as it contains
your unique customer number) in their web access logs, and then also use
that to log to a database details of every page you visit on their site.
However, the Commissioner has stated that they don't have to provide
this information in response to an SAR.
Tony
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