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Data protection Act
"Peter Crosland" wrote in message
... If anyone wants to go deeper into it, I suggest that you contact the Data Protection Department of your local Council and in view of the recent publicity, stand by for confussion :-(( I am not sure if you are joking here but in my experience public bodies frequently cite the DPA as an excuse for all sorts of things without having any real understanding of the rules. Indeed. When I recently switched my electric account to NPower (who already had my gas account) they said they werent allowed to go to the gas side of NPower to get my bank detals and so forth 'because of the data protection act'. Obviously complete ******** (its all the same company FFS) but its such a crap and poorly worded law that it make an excellent excuse for poorly organised companies, police forces and local authorities to use as a scapegoat. If you need advice then they go elsewhere such as the Information Commissioner. Fat lot of use that is, the way the DP act works is that no one knows what it actually means and its left open to each individual to make their own interpretation of the law. The penalty for being wrong is that you get prosecuted and fined or jailed. Hence stupid actions such as Humberside police. The Information Commissioner (who I think I heard speak about Humberside Police recently) said pretty much this AFAICR, ie he (or she) certainly wasnt going to be so bold as to actually state what was covered, no doubt because they have no clue either. -- Tumbleweed Remove theobvious before replying (but no email reply necessary to newsgroups) |
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