While I'm not completely familiar with its operation, could
Matt,
While I'm not completely familiar with its operation, could you not use the section 33 exemption for research purposes here? That seems to allow the data to be processed for a purely statistical exercise as long as they aren't used to support measures or decisions relating to specific individuals.
Regards,
Peter Dinsdale
FOI & Data Protection Officer
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Postcodes request
Thanks Brenda - nearly all of these will be city centre postcodes relating
to more than one property. I'll have a look at whether the statistical
information will be of use, but I suspect they will only want the full
postcodes.
The purpose is to carry out a mapping exercise in relation to population
migration, this one looking at a student's home postcode (generally
parents' address) and their term time address to look at trends and
patterns. Sorry, should have mentioned that in the opening message.
I'm also looking at the 'fairness' test in relation to principle 2 that is
given slightly more prominence in the ICO's recent DPA guidance.
--On 22 December 2009 11:16 +0000 "Scourfield, Brenda"
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> Postcodes can relate to single properties if they are out in the country
> and on their own.
>
> Why do they want to know where students live ? You could supply
> statistical info - ie 6 students live in BS22 ,7 in BS21
>
>
> Brenda Scourfield
> Team Leader,
> I.T.
> Pembrokeshire County Council,
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> Haverfordwest.
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> Hi all
>
> Very boring pre-Christmas query I'm afraid - we've received a third party
> request asking for postcode information of our students in order to do a
> mapping exercise of where students live.
>
> Two things:
>
> 1) In terms of personal data, the postcodes won't identify any individual
> addresses although I am aware of an ICO decision notice that said full
> postcodes did constitute personal data, even where they cover more than
> one address.
>
> 2) We do not inform our students of this use of their data so I am
> struggling to get past principle 2.
>
> Has anyone dealt with a similar request?
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> Thanks
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