“A data protection ‘crisis’ predicted by some experts has been overblown, and the law change behind it will affect only a very few organisations, according to a leading data protection expert.”
OUT-LAW.com, 26th April 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
“The selection and collation of information from several files held on a person does not necessarily count as processing of personal data, according to the Court of Appeal. The activity can escape the remit of the Data Protection Act.”
OUT-LAW.com, 16th April 2007
Source: www.out-law.com
Selection of information is not creating protected data
Johnson v. Medical Defence Union Ltd. (No. 2)
Court of Appeal
“The selection of information from various manual and electronic files and its compilation on a computer did not constitute the creation of data capable of being processed under the Data Protection Act 1998.”
The Times, 10th April 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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