Title: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: jezza777 on November 20, 2005, 03:02:03 PM Ok so iave had a thought after reading Heid's post on notemaking. The data protection Act gives individuals the right to access any information held about them. Does this include notes other players have made on me ?
Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: Robert HM on November 20, 2005, 03:13:49 PM Blooming heck, that's a can of worms you are going to open there.
On the face of it I think the answer is probably yes, but there must be a way around it somehow. Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: Dewi_cool on November 20, 2005, 03:14:48 PM Intellectual property rights overcome the problem I believe.
Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: Heid on November 20, 2005, 03:46:51 PM Also the fact they are held on an individuals pc, rather than a company's?
Heid xx Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: yt on November 20, 2005, 08:06:50 PM Petty sure the act only protects people not their aliases. If you can play online with anonymity then you can’t complain when someone stores data about your alter ego?
Someone in the know please answer this! Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: redsimon on November 20, 2005, 08:32:00 PM Pretty sure DPA only affects data an organisation has on you. Player notes are on a players hard drive not the Poker sites software
Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: madasahatstand on November 20, 2005, 11:14:48 PM Does that mean all the people ive ever written about in my diary (if i had 1) can have access to it or do they need to prove they are in it first? lol
mad Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: Dewi_cool on November 20, 2005, 11:18:41 PM I will need to see it first, before answering that one Mad
Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: mikkyT on November 21, 2005, 01:13:45 AM The original data protection act covered electronic data only, so your diary was safe. It was amended at some point if i remember correctly to include other stored information in an organised format. My memory of this is hazy, its a few years since I looked over it.
Simply put, indiivduals do not need to register under the act. And only certain forms of data apply. Someones notes on a personal PC about an alias poker playing habits almost certainly does not! Title: Re: Player notes and the Data Protection Act Post by: snoopy1239 on November 21, 2005, 02:03:24 AM Okay, I give in.
I've got 'FISH' for you Jezza. :D ;) |