Tim Trent on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at 10:25 AM said:-
> At the point of delivering attributable data to the school
> (or to any third
> party) the research is no longer pure.
Are all the exemptions contained within the DPA permissible, or is research
purity tainted in the same way?
Ian W
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> At the point of delivering attributable data to the school
> (or to any third
> party) the research is no longer pure.
>
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> Okey, Andrew
> Sent: 17 February 2005 10:21
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> Subject: [data-protection] 'pure' research
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Today's HE teaser is -
>
> Research staff undertake work in schools. A group of pupils,
> some with learning difficulties, see a play and are then
> asked what they remember about it (the point of the research
> is to establish whether children with learning difficulties
> are potentially less reliable witnesses in court). As part of
> the set-up for the work, all children likely to be involved
> are given an adapted IQ test to inform the analysis of their
> later recollections.
>
> So far, so 'pure' and, of course, pure research enjoys
> certain exemptions from DP law, notably from access under
> section 7, and from principles 2 and 5.
>
> Now, the researchers suspect that they may get enquiries from
> parents whose children are involved in the work and who are
> interested in knowing their IQ results. That looks OK,
> because section 33.5 of the act says that research is still
> pure even where the data is disclosed to "the data subject of
> a person acting on their behalf". However, the researchers
> are concerned that the schools involved may also ask/demand
> to know such results. Now, research is only pure when it does
> not "support measures or decisions" made on/against
> individuals, and one could imagine that what the schools
> would be trying to obtain are measures of children's IQ on
> which they might conceivably make decisions - e.g. about streaming.
>
> At which point, if the researchers gave this data to schools
> would the research no longer be pure, thereby removing all
> the exemptions they'd usually enjoy?
>
> Andrew Okey
> Lancaster University
>
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