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Wouldnt this be part of standard 'educational purposes' for which you 
are undoubtedly already registered?
BoB Waixel.

Samantha Hill wrote:

>Dear All
>
>I would appreciate your comments on a question that has arisen here.
>
>A lecturer has requested the log-in records for students to a particular 
>computing system as he believes there will be a correlation between recent 
>poor exam results and the amount of times the students have accessed this 
>computer system.  In providing the log-in records we would be disclosing 
>the personal data of the students as I think the purpose is to be able to 
>say Student A accessed the system once for 5 minutes and got 10% whereas 
>Student B accessed the system 10 times for an hour each time and got 70%.
>
>As far as I can find out we have not told the students that we will be 
>doing this, nor that the findings will be discussed with the external 
>examiner who is bound to question the low marks, so I have problems with 
>disclosing the student's personal data - unless the sixth condition of 
>Schedule 2, that the processing is necessary for the purposes of 
>legitimate interests of the data controller, can be used.
>
>I would be grateful for comments on whether this processing would be 
>considered a legitimate purpose and/ or others experience of a similar 
>situation.
>
>Thanks very much
>
>Samantha Hill
>University of Portsmouth
>
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