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January 11, 2005
Data protection lunacy
It seems grumpy to talk about people having no common sense, but what else is one to make of reports like that in the Guardian about the removal of patients’ names from cards and boards because of Data Protection Act concerns? Which is more important, a high degree of privacy or going for the right operation?
This mentality is widespread. Last week the sports centre here refused to give me a fellow squash player’s telephone number, despite the fact we were both involved in efforts to save our local courts. In Edinburgh, I have also been denied photocopying - in one of those antiquated shops where they insist on doing in for you - both of documents with my name on (potential forgery?), and of printed text bearing my name as author (infringement by me of my own copyright?).
www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1383048,00.html?gusrc=rss
Posted by Simon Holledge at January 11, 2005 09:27 PM
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