LETTER:Data registrar has no power to fine
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Kevin Holland
Sir: David Anson (letter, 30 May) accuses Liz Parratt of Liberty of misrepresenting the Data Protection Act, and promptly does so himself. Police systems are not exempt from the subject access provisions of the 1984 Act. Instead, it provides that there is no right of access to personal data held for the prevention or detection of crime or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders, if such access would prejudice those purposes. The registrar has no power to remove this exemption, and no power to impose fines, limited or otherwise.
The Data Protection Registrar is not a he but the delightful and impressive Liz France.
Yours faithfully,
KEVIN HOLLAND
Chairman
Data Protection Committee
Advertising Association
London, SW1
30 May
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