** Reply to note from Samantha Yalden <[log in to unmask]> Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:31:37 -0000
Hi,
I am a bit lost (signs of ignorance of careers activities probably).
> Dear All
>
> I am new to the Data Protection Act and have recently been asked to advise our
> Careers Department on an issue with releasing clients' data to outside third
> parties. The parties are funding bodies and require the data for auditing and
> monitoring purposes.
Who are the clients? Students by any chance?
What are the outside parties. Funding bodies as in LEAs, particular student
sponsors (eg a research council or an embassy). Is it funding bodies that fund
your careers department (is there such a thing?) and do they really have
grounds to demand the details of your clients.
>
> From my limited knowledge of the Act I know that the data subject must give
> their consent to the data sharing. For those that physically come into the
> department this will be done by a Data Protection statement on the
> registration form which they sign stating that they give their permission for
> the data to be shared with project partners.
Why is it necessary to give *clients* personal data with or without their
consent? Who puts the requirement on you.
>
> The difficulty comes with those clients where contact is exclusively by email.
> Is it enough for the University to have a statement on its correspondence
> notifying the client that their information will be shared, or should we seek
> to get the client's explicit written consent?
As above.
=======================
There have been previous issues about releasing careers data to HESA and
many universities refused to do so. I am a bit surpirsed that there are others
that can have a bigger stick than HESA.
PFI is here to stay from the look of things.
Regards
Charles
==============================================
Charles Christacopoulos, Management Information Officer,
Planning & Information, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN,
Scotland, United Kingdom. Tel: 44(0)1382-344891. Fax: 44(0)1382-348845.
http://www.somis.dundee.ac.uk/
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
