[Dataloss] UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy

[Chris Walsh]

In part it depends on the law in wherever it is that the loss took  
place.  I don't have to strain my brain too much to imagine that in  
the UK an exposure like this is more likely to be a transgression of  
some kind of privacy regulation, whereas in the US it might not be.   
Even here I seem to remember running into a FOIA exception relating to  
the addresses of police officers.  Can't recall what state it was, but  
I don't think I'm remembering this wrong....



On Dec 26, 2007, at 10:40 PM, lyger wrote:

> By the way, Adam made a good point about wanting a broader realm of
> disclosure for tracking and analysis.  I wasn't trying to criticize  
> the
> content of the original post; it was more about opening discussion  
> as to
> what might be considered "personal", "private", "public", or  
> "other".  Any
> other thoughts?