Exemptions are exemptions. No need to tell!! The legislation says so.
Ian W.
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: 2001 Census questions
> In a message dated 26/04/2001 08:37:41 GMT Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Information on the name of the name of a person's employer is
> used solely as a further aid to the accurate coding of the type of
> industry by reference to the Inter-Departmental Business Register
> (IDBR) - a list of large employers already classified by type of
> industry. Responses to the question will not be used to produce
> any information on named individual employers.
>
> Responses to the question on address of place of work will show
> the destination of individual journeys to work in relation to the usual
> address, which will normally be the origin of the journey, and will, in
> combination with the response to the mode of transport to work
> question, will provide information on travel to work patterns. >>
> ----------------
> Aah, but has it not already been stated that a public interest argument
> exists for data matching exercises involving all government information
for
> the purposes of fraud prevention and detection?
>
> Would not this data be very useful to identify which employers are
actually
> declaring that they have these people on their books? Of course if the
> individuals are in receipt of benefits and know what they are doing is
wrong
> they would be foolish to put down that they were working.
>
> Surely no-one completing the form would be foolish enough to think the
> information will be held by the ONS in confidence . . .
>
> . . . disclosure to other government departments doesn't count.
>
> To take my paranoia one step further, if they match this data with Inland
> Revenue and supermarket loyalty data they'll have a complete profile of me
> and they could datamatch this with Experian's files and produce an
exception
> report to fill in the gaps in the electoral register and 192.com's
database.
>
> You'd be paranoid too if everyone was against you all the time.
>
> Marvin PA
> Keep IT Legal Ltd
>
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