In a message dated 09/11/2001 09:23:28 GMT Standard Time,
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<< But opinion on the actual need to notify seems mixed. Our legal department
has taken a view, but as far as I'm aware there is no case law. >>
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I wasn't aware that opinion was mixed. I was under the impression that:
1) If the councillor has personal data relating to complainants, surgery
visitors, council staff dealing with the councillor's enquiries, their own
staff or others involved with their representational activities, the
councillor is a data controller in his/her own right; and
2) If that information is being processed on computer or by other automated
means, the councillor is a data controller who must notify the OIC of his/her
activities.
You may be right about the case law, but which of your councillors are
prepared as individual controllers to stick their heads up above the parapet?
Or which ones are you prepared to sacrifice by not informing them of their
legal obligations as advised by the relevant enforcement authority?
Ian Buckland
MD
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