I'm not entirely sure what protection is offered by an opt-in attendance list. I have to admit that I have never seen such a thing in real life. Given that most people walk around events with their names prominently displayed on badges, and distribute their business cards like Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs, I think there's a reasonable expectation that people attending an event will know who the other people are. Following the Tribunal's decision in Harcup, I think it's clear that attendance lists don't have significant DP implications. ** *Tim Turner Data Protection / FOI Officer * *Legal and Property Services ** Email address: [log in to unmask] Postal address: Town Hall, Library Street, Wigan, WN1 IYN * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Tim Trent *Sent:* Mon 11 February 2008 11:25 *To:* [log in to unmask] *Subject:* Re: [data-protection] IT Decision on Durant, event lists, and ICO I moved to consent based attendee lists as soon as the DPA came in. This upset my employer at the time since they were about to print a 5,000 person attendee list with no opt in. BUT they saved £1,000 on the print run! Since those days I have ceased producing attendee lists altogether because so few folk opt in, though I used to try to gather it My advice is ALWAYS to get opt in because the list is: * Passed to third parties * Potentially exported from the EEA * Potentially used for unlawful purposes by the recipient Ibrahim Hassan wrote:

some very useful points for discussion. This is about the disclosure of a list of those who attended YF events and there organisations. I have discussed these on my website in response to a question posted

Rather than cutting and pasting the whole conversation, I have pasted the link below. Apologies for this. In summary: 1. It calls into question the ICO Durant Guidance 2. It requires all of use to consider how we deal with event attendance

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