Perhaps ours is not an ideal example for the original question posed.
The vast majority of our requests come from our own students / staff
(current or former), so we are able to check their identity against our
internal records. All communications are via university personal email
accounts.
Other than that it is recently unsuccessful applicants for study /
employment at the university and again we can often verify identity
against other information we have on file.
Claire
On 05/03/2015 10:56, Andrew Goodfellow-Swaap wrote:
> I'm intrigued as to everyone's apparent willingness to accept photocopied ID documents without certification!
>
> Given the sensitive information that we disclose (often social care records) it is almost inconceivable to me that an, often poor, copy of a document (that we haven't seen and have no way of satisfying ourselves whether it actually is a true copy) would be considered to be sufficient to ensure that the person making the request is the person they are claiming to be.
>
> It seems almost a case of "I AM WHO I AM." (to refer to Lawrence's comment in another thread :) )
>
> Colour me surprised.
>
> Andrew Goodfellow-Swaap
>
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