You can't pick and choose the why's and wherefores of an SAR. Trawling
for information about yourself may bring you one or 2 unpleasant
surprises which need to be corrected. Tony's right to go looking should
always be supported otherwise we end up in a situation where the
organisations are the judges of whether an SAR is worthwhile.
Chris Tinsley
Wiltshire County Council
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Sent: 14 July 2006 12:47
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Best practice handling of SARs
Fascinating it may be, but what a waste of people's time and resources.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tony Bowden
Sent: 14 July 2006 12:38
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Best practice handling of SARs
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 12:12:55PM +0100, Carter, Antoinette (MCS)
wrote:
> I talk through the nature of their "dispute" with the organisation
> (because let's face it people don't submit DSARs unless they're
> already very, very miffed for some reason).
This may indeed generally be the case, but it's certainly not always
true. I regularly make SARs just to see what data people hold on me, but
have only used it as part of a dispute once.
It's quite fascinating to compare the data held by different banks,
credit card companies etc, and also to compare the systems that they
have in place. Some have to go through each "screen" on their rather old
fashioned systems and just print a screen capture. Others seem to have
systems that pretty much allow them to just press a button and have
everything dumped out.
The one I keep meaning to make, but haven't gotten around to yet is
Tesco. Apparently it's worth requesting your data annually from them as
they gather so much and do so much processing of it that they regularly
move people to different customer categories...
Tony
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