Re: B&B CLOSED

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:16:56 GMT, Journalist-North in message
<news:si9Ge.47949$Pf3.45510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "Alex Heney" <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:16vdrn8chuhms$.1kjnco0ytuxmh.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:07:34 GMT, Journalist-North in message
>> <news:GE5Ge.245857$Vo6.133244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> AND THAT IS PROBABLY AGAINST THE LAW TOO... DOUBLY SO IF YOU MAKE AND
> KEEP
>>> RECORDS TO THE EFFECT.
>>>
>>> RE: Data Protection Act
>>>
>>
>> Which part of the DPA do you think that would be breaching?
>>
>> The DPA doesn't go nearly as far in limiting what data can be kept as many
>> people think.
>>
>> Alex Heney
> -------------
>
> It goes plenty far enough when Heritage considers it as: "...the need for
> the surreptitious checking that our club undertakes for every person or
> couple who visits..." Clearly implying that they are not disclosing the data
> gathering exercise to the subject and from which they implicitly draw
> conclusions [on admission to the club] from the data so gathered.
>
> http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/80029--b.htm#7
>
> PART 1 of the Act
>
> 1. - (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
>
> "personal data" means data which relate to a living individual who can be
> identified-
>
<snip>

> ------------
>
> 2. In this Act "sensitive personal data" means personal data consisting of
> information as to-
>
<snip>
> -----------
>
> PART 2 of the Act
>
> PART II
> RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS AND OTHERS
>
> 7. - (1) Subject to the following provisions of this section and to sections
> 8 and 9, an individual is entitled-
>
<snip>
>
> ect, ect
>

None of which they are contravening, unless they refuse to give him the
information when asked (and when he pays the £10 fee).

As I said, which part do you think they will be breaching?

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Alex Heney
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