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In fact, this has jogged my memory that I wrote an article in 1979 for
Radical Statistics entitled "Report of the Committee on Data Protection".
http://www.radstats.org.uk/no015/landau.pdf
This was a report of a talk to the Royal Statistical Society by Prof James
Durbin who was a member of the Lindop Committee on Data Protection.
My note says that there was an earlier Data Protection Committee in 1975 and
the Younger Committee (on Privacy) in 1972.
There is a more comprehensive article "DATA PROTECTION: SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
NEED TO BE VIGILANT" by Martin Bulmer of the LSE in the SSRC Survey Archive
Bulletin (University of Essex) No 14 of September 1979. (now the UK Data
Archive)
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/bulletins/dab14.pdf
In fact, as the above article shows, the Data Protection Committee was
chaired by Lindop and is therefore one and the same as the Lindop Committee
on Data Protection.
The articles by Martin Bulmer states:
"The 'Data Protection Committee's Report (summarised in Bulletin 13) is
currently being considered by Home Office ministers. The setting up of the
Data Protection Committee (DPC) followed on from the Younger Committee on
Privacy in 1972 (Cmnd. 5012) and from the ensuing White Paper Computers and
Privacy (Cmnd. 6353, 1975). The spur to action has been the growth in the
computerisation of personal information over the last 20 years, particularly
in areas like crime control, credit rating, banking, motor vehicle
licensing, personnel work and health and education. The DPC's task was to
determine how such computerised personal information could be controlled."
Nick Landau
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Welton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Deceased Records Access - Was Silent Calls
> The previous post and article referred to a concern from a focused
> perspective and cannot be taken as totally incorrect, merely not giving
> the
> broader picture. I would guess the statement is focused for a particular
> audience and worded for their needs and objectives.
>
> The original Lindop report:
> Lindop, Norman Sir. Report of the Committee on Data Protection. London:
> HMSO, 1978. ISBN 0 10 173410 7
> and the follow on report from the core committee which was reconvened in
> 1981 would be some things to read if one wished to begin identifying some
> of
> the later origins of the DPA 1984, and apparent frustrations surrounding
> the
> original implementation.
>
> A previously circulated message on this list on 25 June 2004 relating to
> the
> Bichard Report identifies that some unpublished papers also exist from
> during that period which identify one of the main bones of contention over
> the DPA 1984 as being that the Home Office did not want an independent
> supervisory authority, as they preferred to carry out that function
> themselves. Today it could almost appear as if they have been progressing
> towards that same preference ever since.
>
> Regards
>
> Ian W
>
>
>
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 21:56:49 -0000
> From: Paul Ticher <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Deceased Records Access - Was Silent Calls
>
> In her introduction to a booklet introducing the 1998 Act, Elizabeth
> France
> says:
>
> "The Data Protection Act 1984 grew out of public concern about personal
> privacy in the fact of rapidly developing computer technology."
>
> This repeats the introduction to an earlier leaflet about the 1984 Act,
> which goes on to say:
>
> "The Act also enabled the UK to ratify the council of Europe Convention on
> Data Protection allowing data to flow freely between the UK and other
> European countries with similar laws, preventing damage to the economy and
> international trade which might otherwise have occurred."
>
> (Now I know why I kept a file called "1984 Data Protection Act" - so that
> I
> can answer questions like this!)
>
> My memory is a bit hazy - and it was over 20 years ago - but my
> recollection
> is that it was actually the second of these that carried more weight. I
> think the Act was a fairly cynical attempt to do the minimum necessary to
> ratify the convention, for purely economic reasons, with only a nod
> towards
> protecting the individual. I am pretty sure it had nothing whatsoever to
> do
> with stopping junk mail, let alone addressed to dead people. The Mailing
> Preference Service came into being around the same time; maybe the two are
> being confused?
>
> Paul Ticher
> 0116 273 8191
> 22 Stoughton Drive North, Leicester LE5 5UB
>
> I hereby require any recipient of this message not to use my personal data
> for direct marketing purposes.
>
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