Selection of information is not creating protected data
Johnson v. Medical Defence Union Ltd. (No. 2)
Court of Appeal
“The selection of information from various manual and electronic files and its compilation on a computer did not constitute the creation of data capable of being processed under the Data Protection Act 1998.”
The Times, 10th April 2007
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