I have taken matter to the UKIC's appeal process. They tried to make me
fill a form out!! I instructed them to take my email as the formal
appeal. Oddly they agreed!
Simon Richardson wrote:
> Tim
>
> I agree with you that the ICO's advice is alarming.
>
> I cannot see anything within the Act that would prevent a data subject from
> voluntarily limiting the scope of the information that they are asking for under
> section 7. The right of access belongs to the data subject, so presumably
> they can chose to limit or waive that right!
>
> We often receive SARs where the data subject only requires certain
> information that we hold about them - e.g. someone who has been in
> extended contact with my organisation over a number of years asked for notes
> of one telephone call that she had made to us.
>
> If we had required her to make a full SAR, then we would have had to have
> considered disclosure of the full file containing hundreds of documents. This
> would have benefited neither herself nor my organisation.
>
> Also - as a public authority, we have an FOIA Publication Scheme and list the
> fees that we may charge for information. We list the £10 fee for SARs, but do
> not list any fees for voluntarily disclosing data.
>
> In the example above, if the lady's request was not a SAR, would we have
> breached our publication scheme (and therefore FOIA) if we had charged her
> the £10 fee?
>
> Simon
>
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