In message <[log in to unmask]>, at
14:41:30 on Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Ian Welton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Of those data controllers who hold recipient transaction type data, how many
>actually disclose it as a routine part of their subject access process?
Most telcos are (I am told) reluctant to divulge on SAR information
which is, in effect, a copy of that customer's phone bill because it is
seen as an abuse of process. The "proper" process being either to
request a copy of the bill, or to tell whatever investigating officer
asked the customer to use a SAR to gather evidence for him (albeit
evidence about themselves) to look out his copy of RIPA and get (and pay
for it) himself.
But this is not what the privacy activists are most interested in. They
are concerned that their personal data is being handed over to
investigators (and the classic example here is The Egg Marketing Board)
on the pretext of solving some terrible crime, and they are never told
that their private matters have been compromised in this way. In effect,
they don't see why the Egg Marketing Board people should know they
phoned the abortion clinic (or their ex-wife, or whatever).
One potential remedy they suggest, is to be told (when they have been
cleared of any misdeed) that this has happened. I'm not sure why that
makes it a whole lot better, but it's not my suggestion.
What I was asking earlier is (eg) whether or not the ex-wife ought to be
told too - do they have a right to know the privacy of the private
relationship, by phone, with that individual has been potentially
compromised?
--
Roland Perry
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