Stephen Williams on 25 November 2003 at 16:30 said:-
> I would add that under the Act the data subject is entitled
> to have communicated to him a description of the purposes for
> which the data are processed.
I quite agree. Simply producing a document containing the information,
extract from a document or computer system can be insufficient.
The data subject also needs to be informed about the disclosures likely to
be made and any coding of any sort used needs explaining. Complicated with
colour coded data when the produced document is black and white! :-).
Ian W
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> I would add that under the Act the data subject is entitled
> to have communicated to him a description of the purposes for
> which the data are processed. The Directive prefaces the
> requirements re subject access with the words "at least".
>
> This suggests the need for caution when taking extracts from
> documents if the purposes behind their use is not self
> evident. It could be argued that the description the data
> subject is entitled to is more than a cursory description,
> such as 'evidence' and, subject to the third party test,
> includes understanding the import and context of the use.
>
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