In message <[log in to unmask]>, Tony Bowden <[log in to unmask]> writes >Disproportionate effort relates to the amount of work required in >_providing_ the information, not in locating it. What about *extracting* it? The organisation might know that the data is held on a specific Magnetic Tape, but extracting it in a human-understandable fashion might be very difficult. (Of course, if it's so difficult to extract, you could argue it's not much of a privacy risk...) -- Roland Perry ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^