***** THIS EMAIL WAS SENT VIA THE INTERNET ***** All Many thanks to you all who replied. I also phoned the OIC who said there was nothing definitive in the Act which states that you must not use live data but in view of the many security issues i.e. corruption, wrongful disclosure, loss of data, etc there may be a breach of the 7th principle and they would take enforcement action in that event. I wonder if this is not more of a BS7799 issue.......... Dor Doreen Broom Access to Information Officer Scottish Borders Council Tel: 01835 826516 Fax: 01835 825041 ******************************************************************** * This email is privileged, confidential and subject to copyright. * * Any unauthorised use or disclosure of its content is prohibited. * * The views expressed in this communication may not necessarily * * be the views held by Scottish Borders Council. * ******************************************************************** ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^