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Presumably the same consideration will apply to all records including paper based when the new Act is fully implemented. Albert Preston [log in to unmask] > -----Original Message----- > From: Anne Johnson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, December 18, 1998 13:23 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Confirmation of awards to ex-debtors > > > > There has been a lot of contradictory advice flying about regarding > the > 1998 Data Protection Act, but this might be food for thought: > > At a conference held by the University of Southampton in London on 4 > December, the Senior Compliance Manager from the Data Protection > Registrar's Office said (quite firmly!) that students had a > fundamental > right to be provided with a copy of information held about them on > computer. > > He said that this would naturally include degree classifications if > held > on computer, *regardless* of whether the student owed the University > money. However, he did say that exercising the sanction of withholding > the > actual parchment certificate or official transcript is perfectly OK. > > > __________________________________ > Anne Johnson > Assistant Registrar (Student Systems) > University of Sussex; Tel: 01273 (67)8761 > e-mail [log in to unmask] > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%