NHS email encryption

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:14:52 +0100


In article <46D6947C.40501@callnetuk.com>, PeteM <otcbn@callnetuk.com> 
writes
>>  Administrative and audit data is only anonymised "if possible",
>
>Really? Who says? I thought it was the other way around. Anyway, in 
>what circumstances would it not be possible to anonymise personal data? 
>I can see that in some circumstances it might be necessary to *break* 
>anonymity that had been imposed, but I can't see how it might be 
>impossible to impose it in the first place.

Perhaps they mean that it will be anonymised as long as it's then 
*possible* to use the resulting data effectively in their Admin and 
Audit processes.
-- 
Roland Perry