Off topic: DPA question

[Andrew Cormack]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-
> bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of Marcus Williamson
> Sent: 13 June 2014 00:01
> To: ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Off topic: DPA question
> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:59:56 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> >That depends on whether the email address relates to a living
> individual
> >(and also whether that individual is identified or identifiable).
> 
> Hello Francis
> 
> Thank you - in this case the email address relates to a living
> individual.
> 
> In my view, their personal (non-business) email address would be
> personal
> information but their business email address would not be.
> 
> Any thoughts please? Thank you!
> 
> best wishes
> Marcus

Just to add a wrinkle the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regs *do* distinguish between e-mail addresses of "individual subscribers" and others :(

But even then it's pretty tricky, if you're external to the system, to try to distinguish them - how do you know whether andrew.cormack at ja.net is an 'individual subscriber' or not? Or indeed how do I know which marcus at connectotel.com is?

Andrew