In message <000001c5a727$22cadb10$0302a8c0@DELL5000>, at 15:38:16 on
Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Duncan Smith <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I think it all falls over right from the start under the DPA Domestic
>Exemption; this is the employee in his personal life (talking/writing)
>about his work life. He is therefore not a data controller; just a bloke
>with a blog
But he still has DPA responsibilities - even if he doesn't need to
notify. What about that Scandanavian woman who was prosecuted under her
local DPA law for having [infringing] pictures of her neighbours on her
website?
Not that this changes my view that the employer has any mileage in
raising a SAR.
>I just feel uncomfortable as this leaves the Employer with few choices as to
>access to any comment made about them,
Life's like that sometimes. Employers don't have a right to be a big
brother (in the Orwell sense), even though some give every impression of
aspiring to that.
>and any potential libel.
>
>>>You can't libel a company, anyway<<
>
>Stand to be corrected on this, but I think you can as they are a 'legal
>person'.
You can only libel "natural persons" (although it's not expressed quite
that way).
--
Roland Perry
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