In message <006f01c467f3$b7cb14b0$403468d5@com>, at 10:36:11 on Mon, 12
Jul 2004, Ian Welton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Is anybody aware if the volume of enforced Subject Access Requests in the
>Policing sectors, (where the data subject was being coerced into requesting
>information which may be held about them), has reduced since the
>implementation of the Criminal Records Bureau?
In matters I deal with, if anything, the hoopla over the CRB has brought
to people's attention that in order to be duly diligent they should make
much better enquiries about their staff. And if they are an organisation
that's not entitled to CRB checks, they fall back on what they perceive
as the next best thing: PNC SARs.
The US Embassy is still using PNC SARs as a way to vet visa applicants,
as far as I know. And we, as a country, recently narrowly escaped every
tourist heading for the USA needing a visa from October (in the absence
of biometric passports)...
>Have any other UK sectors identified any cases of coercion being applied to
>data subjects as a means of identifying what data may be held?
--
Roland Perry
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