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An educational organisation who are providing training to our Benefits staff have approached us with regard to training. They wish our employees to use their web-based system when doing their assessments and they must use "real" data. They also say that "there is nothing to worry about and if anyone were to get into trouble it wouldn't be us and that they have registered it for data protection purposes!". As the famous Scottish saying goes "Do they think I come up the Clyde in a banana boat".
I am basically writing to ask if anyone out there has had similar situations but from my point of view, we obtained the information for benefits administration purposes and no other and therefore cannot then decide to use it for training purposes. I also fear that the data may then be sold on to e.g. loan sharks?
I honestly cannot see any reason why it must be real data...perhaps some of you educational guys/gals out there can enlighten me....
Doreen
Doreen Broom
Access to Information Officer
Scottish Borders Council
Tel: 01835 826516
Fax: 01835 825041
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