Baines, Jonathan wrote:
> Thinking further about this. Both these fines (and Surrey's before
> that) appear to have arisen because of problems with distribution
> lists or auto-complete facilities in email programs.
>
> Do any organisations represented on this list have specific
> policies/software to prevent or mitigate the risk of this happening?
>
Hi,
How can anyone stop an email being sent to the wrong recipient? Unless
we believe humans do not make mistakes.
I absolutely agree with you with auto-complete and similar user friendly
functionality.
Cheers,
Charles
--
Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Strategic Information Management, ICS, University of Dundee,
Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, United Kingdom.
t: 44(0)1382-384891 w: www.somis.dundee.ac.uk
The University of Dundee is a Scottish Registered Charity, No. SC015096.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
All archives of messages are stored permanently and are
available to the world wide web community at large at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html
If you wish to leave this list please send the command
leave data-protection to [log in to unmask]
All user commands can be found at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm
Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner
[log in to unmask]
Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs
To receive these emails in HTML format send the command:
SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask]
(all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|