Alternatively, assume that passing data to a Data Processor does fall within
the definition of processing (the simplest option) and agree with the
Information Commissioner that there are so many bits missing from Schedule 3
+ SI2000 no.417 that the provisions for sensitive data are effectively a
dead letter.
Paul Ticher
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From: "Marchini, Renzo" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Outsourcing
There is another view to that expressed in out-law.com.
Their analysis depends on the passing of data by a controller to a processor
itself being an act of "processing" for which you need to find a legal basis
(schedule 3). If it is, then of course, many, many, many outsourcings which
happen on a daily basis could not take place - since it is almost impossible
to find a schedule 3 condition.
(The problem does not arise for non-sensitive data since you could generally
rely on para 6 of schedule 2).
Instead, one can take the view that that passing (of data from controller to
processor) is not an act of "processing". You then don't need to find a
schedule 3 condition.
There is logic in this view: the controller remains responsible for the act
of the processor, the controller still needs to comply with paras 11 and 12
of schedule 1 and so on, data subject's are not prejudiced since all other
provisions of the DPA apply (including organizational and technical security
and so on - which may be the real issue in this news story).
There is support in the language of the definitions: "processing" doesn't
expressly refer to "passing" data (by any terms) - the closest you get is
"disclosure" in para (c) of Section 1(1) - but giving it to a processor
(acting on a controller's behalf only) can hardly be called "disclosure".
The introductory words before the examples in (a) to (d) are likewise a
little difficult to make clearly fit this situation: giving data to a
processor to act on a controller's behalf is not "obtaining, recording or
holding". (It is true that the processor "holds" the data - but there is no
need to find a schedule 2 or 3 condition in the hands of the processor -
since it is only the controller that needs to have the legitimizing basis).
It might, just, be the "carrying out of an operation" - but that to me
implies some sort of use of the information in the data.
I realize this is a rather pragmatic analysis to get out us of the need to
find a schedule 3 basis, but how else does one do it?
Renzo Marchini
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ray Cooke
Sent: 17 September 2012 08:48
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Outsourcing
V. interesting. The reference in the article to "sections 11 and 12 of the
DPA" is not quite right though, is it? This must be a reference to paras 11
and 12 of Schedule 1, Part II which set out the requirements for data
processors relating to the seventh, security, principle. These are
ingrained in my memory because of the need to bang on so much about the
issues relating to outsourcing to data processors.
Ray Cooke
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fax: +44 (0)1865 483330
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On 17 September 2012 08:15,
<[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
ICO's 'pragmatic' view of outsourcing rules on sensitive personal data
processing may be without legal basis, claim experts
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/september/icos-pragmatic-view-of-outsourcing-rules-on-sensitive-personal-data-processing-may-be-without-legal-basis-claim-experts/
Regards
Ibrahim Hasan
Www.actnow.org.uk<http://Www.actnow.org.uk>
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