I don't know the answer to that and if I am honest, it doesn't worry me one
way or the other. I suspect that the police try to accumulate as much data
as they can on everyone they encounter - I'm sure it's always been that way
and it always will be.
Tim Turner
Data Protection / FOI Officer
Legal and Property Services
Wigan Council
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scourfield, Brenda
Sent: Fri 19 January 2007 15:09
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] School fingerprinting: Warning: likely to r
aise blood pressu re
Have the police still got your fingerprints, Tim, or did they destroy them
once the case was closed ?
Brenda Scourfield
Team Leader
I.T. Division
Pembrokeshire County Council
County Hall
Haverfordwest
SA61 1 TP
Tel 01437 775380
> -----Original Message-----
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> [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of RONAN DURNIN
> Sent: 19 January 2007 15:01
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> Subject: Re: School fingerprinting: Warning: likely to r aise blood
> pressure
>
> I think you could have refused to have your prints taken - one assumes
> that your prints would only be used for eliminating your prints from
> those belonging to the burglars. My cynical brain tells me that if you
> submitted your prints to the boys in blue that it is very likely that
> your prints would be added to some sort of database 'for future
> reference' 'just in case'. No doubt the media would hail this as a
> 'stroke of genius' if in the future you were convicted as some sort of
> longstanding menace to society.
>
> Of course, my rational side tells me that volunteering your prints
> would help the police identify which prints belonged to you and which
> belonged to the criminals.
>
> Ronan.
>
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Turner
> Sent: 19 January 2007 14:48
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] School fingerprinting: Warning: likely
> to r aise blood pressure
>
> But the question remains - why?
>
> Is it the criminal connotations? If this is the case, when my house
> was burgled and the police wanted my dabs so that they could work out
> which prints were the burglar's and which prints were mine, should I
> have refused?
>
>
> Tim Turner
> Data Protection / FOI Officer
> Legal and Property Services
> Wigan Council
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Griffiths, Ian
> Sent: Fri 19 January 2007 14:34
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> Subject: Re: [data-protection] School fingerprinting: Warning: likely
> to r aise blood pressure
>
> Most notably, people are less afraid of having their photograph taken.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ian Welton
> Sent: 19 January 2007 14:39
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> Subject: Re: [data-protection] School fingerprinting: Warning: likely
> to r aise blood pressure
>
> What is the difference between a fingerprint, obtained quite fairly
> and openly by a school, and a school photograph, obtained and held in
> many schools?
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