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Originally Posted by Raistlin
In order for it to be 'personally identifying' the information would need to make it possible to directly identify an individual.
As many people in the UK could have the name 'Mercedes' the name on its own would not be classed as personaly identifiable.
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its always good to keep the definition of the act in clear sight and in mind....
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998..._en_2#pt1-l1g1
...
“
personal data”
means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified—
(a)
from those data,
or
(b)
from those data and
other information which is in the possession of,
or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller,
and
includes any expression of opinion about the individual and
any indication of the intentions of the data controller or
any other person
in respect of the individual;
...
and this is helpful to some
http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/dataprote...#_Toc174939790