In response to Ian from Keepitlegal, is acknowledging the existence of
personal data the same as disclosing personal data?, am I in breach of the
act to confirm existence of data?
Paul Couldrey
Wolverhampton Council
-----Original Message-----
From: Owen Parry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 February 2001 11:42
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: To be or not to be
One of my users has asked the following question:
When I am asked by the police to confirm whether or not a person was in
attendance as a student and cannot actually find the person in our records,
can I inform the police that I have no record of that person? Obviously I
have no way of contacting the person to gain their consent.
My own advice was that he/she should refuse to confirm or deny the existence
of records until the police provided the correct paperwork, because If
he/she confirmed no records in one case, it therefore suggests that in other
cases records may exist by failing to confirm no records.
This sounded a bit Kafaesque as I wrote it so I thought I'd seek any
thoughts colleagues may have.
Owen Parry
Pennaeth Cyfrifiadura Gweinyddol/
Head of Administrative Computing
Prifysgol Cymru/
University of Wales
Tel: (029) 2038 2656 Ffacs/Fax: (029) 2039 6040
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