(December 9, 2012 at 2:35 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(December 9, 2012 at 2:24 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Asking a data holder for sensitive information IS asking them to break the act.No, asking a data holder for sensitive information is exactly that, and nothing more. By giving out that information, they would be breaking the act, but the actual act of asking for it is not the same as asking them to break the act itself.
You don't have to name it.
In other words, there is a difference between:
"Please can I have <insert information>?"
and
"Please break the Data Protection Act and give me <insert information>."
No there isn't.
The onus is on the data holder to handle the request correctly but the Djs must have known that they were asking for stuff they weren't entitled to.
Quote:I highly doubt the Australian DJs were even aware of the DPA. You cannot ask someone to break something you know nothing about.
Course you can.
They knew they were being "naughty" I bet that was half the fun.
Quote:Well not now anyway.The hospital said they weren't disciplining the nurses before the suicide happened.[/quote]
Did they say why not?
She had after all breached an act of parliament with rather stringent punishments for breaching, (not the dead one the other one).
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
