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Our current advice to staff is not to use home-based computers for such work. We advise restricting the processing of personal data at home to just email, and to avoid processing email if it involves sensitive or confidential information. There are a whole range of issues around home-based working including whether the equipment is owned by the organisation or the individual, e.g where do the legal responsibilities lie, what about Health and Safety, who is responsible for the ergonomics of the home-based workstation and so on. Mike Lloyd Assistant Head (Academic) ISaCS University of Glamorgan Llantwit Road Treforest Pontypridd CF37 1DL tel: 01443 482417 email: [log in to unmask] > ---------- > From: Edwina Withe > Reply To: Edwina Withe > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 3:24 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Working at Home using Sensitive data > > With new ways of working there are times when people write reports at > home, using laptops owned by the organisation or home computers, which > could conceivably involve processing sensitive personal information. > > Has anyone issued any guidelines about home working (apart from IT > Security issues) that they would be willing to share or could point me in > the direction of some good reference material? > > Edwina Withe > Data Protection Officer > Bracknell Forest BC > > > > ********************************************************************** > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > the system manager. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > ********************************************************************** > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%