On 23 Oct 2010, at 16:09, Adrian Midgley (Gmail) wrote:
> IANAL, but that looks like a DPA violation.
>
> I'd suggest that returning the data in usable form on request up to a
> year after they close down would be a reasonable expectation, and
> individually alerting users, and ensuring that the users have
> understood, before removing access or making the data unusable by
> recovery may be an expectation which would be widely supported.
>
> Actually sending the user's data to the user is something I think comes
> close to proper practice, either as hard copy, or more economically and
> usefully on a USB chip.
>
>
>
> I shall emphasise again that I never trusted them to be reliable or
> useful, based on observations of such things in association with
> administration and the NHS over many years.
>
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> A
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