** Reply to note from Brenda Scourfield <[log in to unmask]> Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:03:20 +0000
> A person has requested a copy of a letter. In that letter there is the
> name of a third party. We write to the third party and ask for their
> permission to disclose their name in the letter. They agree.
> My question is, what happens if the person we disclose to then
> publishes/discloses this letter to all and sundry. Can they be prosecuted
> for disclosing personal data ? Do we have to stipulate that the copy of
> the letter is for their eyes only ?
Hi,
Is the letter written by the third party? If you removed the name (why even
consider disclosing it?), could someone assume that the name removed was
that of the Third party?
Why don't you just remove the personal information from the letter ...
Regards
Charles
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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/ ::egothor http://www.egothor.org/
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