In article <[log in to unmask]>, Liz Dodds
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>The academic
>department concerned want to tell the other institution about our
>discovery and subsequent action but are afraid that in doing so they
>will contravene the Data Protection Act.
The following extract from a draft Privacy Best Practice document may
assist:
Disclosing confidential information
There are two ways in which the use or disclosure of confidential
information [by an ISP] will not amount to a breach of confidence.
The first is where the use is expressly or implicitly authorised by the
user. The second, exemplified in the old maxim "there is no confidence
in iniquity", is where the nature of the information (or other
circumstances) mean that the court will refuse to provide any remedy to
someone complaining of a breach of confidence.
--
Roland Perry
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