The Mark Thomas Project, love it! He is actually running a competition for "the most creative short film obtained via the Data Protection Act" which will be included in his next series (http://www.mtp2001.co.uk/show1/comp.html) http://www.mtp2001.co.uk/show1/index.html has some interesting info on the rights of people in the UK and data held about us, we apparently have: 1.. The right to access data held about you. 2.. The right to prevent processing where it is causing you substantial distress under some cases 3.. The absolute right to prevent processing for direct marketing. 4.. The right to prevent automatic decisions being undertaken based solely on the data held about you, under certain cases. 5.. The right to claim compensation from a Data Controller for damage and distress under certain cases. 6.. The right to rectification, erasure and destruction of incorrect data or expression of opinions. 7.. The right to ask the Commissioner whether the Act has been contravened ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Swain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 5:38 PM Subject: RE: SS > I like that. Over here, we have a law that if you have been filmed on CCTV, > you can pay �20 to the company who own the CCTV camera, and they have to > give you a copy of the tape. > > There is a tv presenter over here who took a band of morris dancers into a > McD******, where they were all obviously filmed on CCTV, then sent them a > �20 note and a request for a copy of the tape. The Mark Thomas Project, love it! He is actually running a competition for "the most creative short film obtained via the Data Protection Act" which will be included in his next series (http://www.mtp2001.co.uk/show1/comp.html) http://www.mtp2001.co.uk/show1/index.html has some interesting info on the rights of people in the UK and data held about us, we apparently have: 1.. The right to access data held about you. 2.. The right to prevent processing where it is causing you substantial distress under some cases 3.. The absolute right to prevent processing for direct marketing. 4.. The right to prevent automatic decisions being undertaken based solely on the data held about you, under certain cases. 5.. The right to claim compensation from a Data Controller for damage and distress under certain cases. 6.. The right to rectification, erasure and destruction of incorrect data or expression of opinions. 7.. The right to ask the Commissioner whether the Act has been contravened > This also applies to the Police taping you, which they do at football > (soccer) matches, for example. One feels like paying up and insisting on > exercising one's rights just for the sake of it. > > Will > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 23 July 2001 17:25 > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: SS > > > but there is always another side. > > nothing is stopping you from sniffing out .gov mail either. > > if you want a bot to hit as many gov sites & archive them > go for it. > > if some one points a camera at you. > buy one & point it right back. > > -paul > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
