In message , Franz Heymann
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"David Hill" wrote in message
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they say in their last paragraph ....... "If you as an organisation or
company hold any personal or customer information, either in a database or
other retrievable format, then in accordance with the Act and under the
authority of the Information Commissioner, you must register as a data
controller."

There you see what I was bothered about in an earlier post. *All* data
whatsoever is now in a retrievable format, since the advent of scanners and
optical character recognition software.

The only data *not* in retrievable form would be data written on paper,
shredded and put on the compost heap.


( There you are. Back on topic)

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Franz


You must look at the Act in its entirety, not just isolated statements.
--
hugh
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