Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner – Times Law Reports

Posted July 14th, 2008 in data protection, freedom of information, law reports, Scotland by sally

Common Services Agency v Scottish Information Commissioner

House of Lords

“Information concerning the incidence of childhood leukaemia in a particular postal area should not be disclosed unless either it could be anonymised so that it was not personal data or could be released in a form which did not contravene one of the data protection principles under the Data Protection Act 1998.”

The Times, 14th July 2008

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