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Friday, September 28, 2001 9:46 AM stated
> We had a situation arise recently where a student's partner
> contacted us to tell us .........
> ........ the partner tried to insist that he must not know
There is a potential danger that information of this type could be a 'joke'
or malicious.
Ian W
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Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Personal data from third parties
> We had a situation arise recently where a student's partner
> contacted us to tell us that he was suffering from a serious medical
problem
> necessitating additional support at residential school. The student was
> apparently unaware of the problem & the partner tried to isist that he
must
> not know of it or where the info about it came from.
> From a dp point of view, this sort of 'secret' processing would be
> contrary to the principles and my view was therefore that we could not
> record the info or offer support without the student knowing.
> A question which subsequently arose was whether we could be liable
> in other ways e.g under the Disability Act if we had been made aware such
a
> situation and did nothing about it. I understand the latter makes no
> reference to third party info though?
> Any thoughts/advice?
> Gail Waters
> DP Coordinator
> Open UNiversity
>
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