In message <[log in to unmask]
ishCouncil.Org>, at 14:32:05 on Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Antoinette Carter
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>This company are not actually doing anything illegal directly
Oh yes they are.
>All they are doing is using data mining software to trawl the
>internet for e-mail addresses.
That is a data protection offence.
"Where the email address is collected from a public space (eg
website or usenet) on the Internet, it is unfair processing
(Article 6(1)(a)), contrary to the purpose principle
(Article 6(1)(b)), and does not satisfy the balance of interest
test (Article 7(f)).
<http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2000/wp28
_en.pdf>
> The email addresses are not personal data in this case because they
>don't identify an individual.
Some of them might not, but the majority will. In what sense are you not
identified as Antionette Carter who works at the British Council, for
example?
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Roland Perry
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