I'll back this up totally.
Treat everything as data which is covered by the act and you cannot easily
transgress. Weasel around it and you can fall foul of all sorts of things.
We teach active Data Privacy, including the need to make sure all
"borderline" data is compliant. By the sound of it you do the same.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Graham Hadfield
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 11:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] SAR & the Durant Case
On the internal DP Overview courses I've been running since the back end of
2002 I've always told colleagues that if they have some information which
identifies a living individual then they should treat it as being covered by
the DPA 1998 - to try and prove otherwise will probably cause them more work
and hassle than just to get on with it. I still give the same advice post
Durant.
As it happens, most of our SARs concern social services files so Durant is
irrelevant - but we are a local authority, not a secret society, and there
are plenty of exemptions available for use where the file contains data that
should not be provided to the applicant for good reason.
Regards,
Graham
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