I would have thought you would have discharged any responsibility after obtaining consent but as usual, that is just my common-sense approach and no doubt the lawyers out there will tell me differently.
D
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Christacopoulos [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 28 January 2005 10:16
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Third party permission to disclose
>
> ** Reply to note from Brenda Scourfield <[log in to unmask]> Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:03:20 +0000
>
>
> > A person has requested a copy of a letter. In that letter there is the
> > name of a third party. We write to the third party and ask for their
> > permission to disclose their name in the letter. They agree.
> > My question is, what happens if the person we disclose to then
> > publishes/discloses this letter to all and sundry. Can they be prosecuted
> > for disclosing personal data ? Do we have to stipulate that the copy of
> > the letter is for their eyes only ?
>
> Hi,
>
> Is the letter written by the third party? If you removed the name (why even
> consider disclosing it?), could someone assume that the name removed was
> that of the Third party?
>
> Why don't you just remove the personal information from the letter ...
>
> Regards
> Charles
>
> --
> Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
> 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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