On Thu, 8 May 2008 09:33:22 +0100, "Aidy" wrote:
>> Which is just as true of adults as it is of children.
>
>I wasn't aware that taking a photo of an adult in public classed it as being
>"personal data".
>
It doesn't.
And neither does taking a photo of a child in public do so.
But retaining the photo for anything other than private family
purposes does put either into the category of "personal data" as
defined by the DPA.
And there is no difference whatsoever between a photo of an adult and
a photo of a child for DPA purposes.
>> And the DPA does NOT prevent publication of that "data", although many
>> people think it does.
>
>I didn't say it did, it restricts what you can do with the data and for what
>purposes.
>
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