Off topic: DPA question

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Sat Jun 14 12:44:19 BST 2014


On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:01:25 +0100, Marcus Williamson  
<marcus at connectotel.com> wrote:

> 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!

Nominet seem to have a system for deciding whose name shall be published  
as owner of the domain in response to Whois, and whose should not.

If I registered a domain lindsey.me.uk, then whois would not indicate that  
I owned it. But try doing a whois on usenet.org.uk :-).

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