This definitely seems to be an issue, but the origins of the requirement are
not clear to me. I am doing some work with agencies funded by the Home
Office, and they were explicitly told, as a condition of funding, that they
could not store personal data overseas (which kind of scuppered a possible
project based on SalesForce, as that is a cloud service whose data is held
in the USA).
Concerted lobbying for clarification resulted in a revised instruction that
they were not to store UK government data overseas. The debate now is
whether the data held by the agencies I am working with is government data
or not. The agencies are working to support asylum seekers. Clearly a lot
of the data they hold is a replica of some of the data the government holds
on the same people, but it is obtained independently by the agencies and, in
my view, is not government data, even though it is collected in order to
provide a service that is funded by the government.
The basis of the instructions they are getting seems to lie within the Home
Office, rather than being a consistent line across the whole of government,
but I would be very interested if anyone has any more reliable information
about this.
Paul Ticher
0116 273 8191
22 Stoughton Drive North, Leicester LE5 5UB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Broadfoot" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:25 PM
Subject: Overseas transfers and Public Sector
At the ICO conference a couple of weeks ago I was talking with someone from
the public sector who told me that following the loss of the HMRC discs all
overseas transfers of public sector data now need Cabinet Office approval.
Is this true and if so can someone point me to a reference?
many thanks,
Kevin
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