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[Ross Anderson]

Roland:

> Although the DPA doesn't apply to dead people (it's framed in terms of 
> "living individuals"). A good yarn apart from that! Although there's a 
> different Catch-22 there, because the individual *is* still living so 
> the DPA would indeed apply - it's just that while HMG thinks they are 
> dead...

Many HMG procedures assume that everyone born more than 100 years ago
is dead. By default your records are released 100 years after your
birth.  This was implemented by ONS a short time after the departure
of the late Quen Mother, God Bless her soul ...

Perhaps, to defend the honour of the Information Commisioner,
centenarians should no longer be sent a telegram but a happysleep pill

Ross