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Stuart · 26-03-2012, 22:39

I studied the DPA (both 1984 and 1998 editions) at Uni. While I did computer science, and not law, it was felt we would need to know at least some of the legal aspects of what we were doing.

Anyhow, what we were told was basically what Hugh said, and that the EU insisted on that clause in the DPA 1998 precisely to ensure that we would be protected in the event that companies (in this case, the government) attempted to get around the DPA by ensuring that the data was stored in the UK, but processed or used elsewhere.

26-03-2012, 22:39	#5
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: Government outsources IT to India to develop Benefit systems I studied the DPA (both 1984 and 1998 editions) at Uni. While I did computer science, and not law, it was felt we would need to know at least some of the legal aspects of what we were doing. Anyhow, what we were told was basically what Hugh said, and that the EU insisted on that clause in the DPA 1998 precisely to ensure that we would be protected in the event that companies (in this case, the government) attempted to get around the DPA by ensuring that the data was stored in the UK, but processed or used elsewhere.