NHS email encryption

[Caspar Bowden]

FYI - the ICO has published new guidance on the meaning of personal data in=
 DPA, following an Art.29 WP Opinion discussing same in EU DPD some weeks a=
go. Both are fascinating, and some surprises tucked away for DP Kremlinolog=
ists...

http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/detailed_spe=
cialist_guides/personal_data_flowchart_v1_with_preface.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/2007/wp136_en.pdf

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Caspar Bowden

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.=
greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of PeteM
>...

>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.
...
>These items cannot be used to identify a subject - i.e. discover his
>name and address - because each particular (named) individual's drug
>history is not in the public domain, unlike his age, sex, address etc.