Tim,

Thanks for your comments, and no I don't take them personally.

The purpose of the standard as I see it is to help anyone to setup and
maintain an effective management system for Personal Information so that
it will help them, as a minimum, be in accordance with the law (i.e. the
DPA 1998) and in certain areas at the level of best practice if the law
is lagging behind.

If (when?) the standard does see the light of day and if in the future
it goes the same development route as BS7799 and certification follows,
it will be interesting to see if businesses see a value in being
certified and providing a degree of comfort to the consumers out there
that their personal information is/will be handled responsibly.

It is going to be interesting to see what other views are expressed in
the coming months.

Regards,

Gordon.

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>>> Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> 09/01/2009 13:09:14
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Thanks for the heads up, Gordon

When this standard was first proposed I was aghast.

We do not have a British Standard for obeying the speed limit, nor for

not murdering people.  Instead we have the law of the land.  We obey or

disobey that at our peril.  We do not need to have a kite mark that
says 
"I obey the law"

I see this very much as "A Standard Too Far" and a wholly astounding 
waste of everyone's time and effort.  I have read the draft standard, I

have commented on it to the extent that I feel it is a standard too 
far.  It appears well drafted, but I argue against the desirability of

having it at all.

I know this may seem personal since you are the chairman of the
drafting 
panel, but please be assured it is not intended to be.  I simply cannot

see the place for this extra piece of emperor's new clothes.  Of course

I may be a lobe voice, and I fully accept that, but this is yet another

bureaucratic burden when businesses need the freedom to trade 
effectively in a time of financial turbulence.

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