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"Graham Murray" wrote in message
... "Snowdon Computers" writes: Bought a laptop at a liquidation auction, had been previously owned by an IT sales company. Had a gander at the hard drive first (as you do) and there were some pretty scary letters to customers - such as Is whoever sold you the laptop not breaking the Data Protection Act in not removing such 'personal information' before selling it to you? I don't think the Information Commission would be too happy with the auction house, no. However as I am a registered data handler with them, on this occasion no law has been broken. -- Best Regards Niel Humphreys Snowdon Computers Ltd |
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Bought a laptop at a liquidation auction, had been previously owned by an IT
sales company. Had a gander at the hard drive first (as you do) and there were some pretty scary letters to customers - such as Is whoever sold you the laptop not breaking the Data Protection Act in not removing such 'personal information' before selling it to you? Amiga Inc recently had some office equipment seized and sold at auction - again, their drives were not wiped. I seem to remember the legal position being that the buyer of goods sold at this sort of auction were granted good title to anything held on there... There will be more on it at www.ann.lu if anyone wanted to do a search on what happened in that particular case. -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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"Snowdon Computers" wrote:
Is whoever sold you the laptop not breaking the Data Protection Act in not removing such 'personal information' before selling it to you? I don't think the Information Commission would be too happy with the auction house, no. However as I am a registered data handler with them, on this occasion no law has been broken. Which means you're no doubt aware that a) you don't "own" the data on it so probably shouldn't be reading it and b) most definitely should NOT be broadcasting or otherwise making it available to others unless the originators (that'll be the company and their customers in this case) have explicitly given permission for it to be used in this manner. I'm sure it makes interesting reading though! ;-) -- iv Paul iv [ Mail: ] [ WWW: http://www.hopwood.org.uk/ ] |
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"Paul Hopwood" wrote in message
... "Snowdon Computers" wrote: Is whoever sold you the laptop not breaking the Data Protection Act in not removing such 'personal information' before selling it to you? I don't think the Information Commission would be too happy with the auction house, no. However as I am a registered data handler with them, on this occasion no law has been broken. Which means you're no doubt aware that a) you don't "own" the data on it so probably shouldn't be reading it and b) most definitely should NOT be broadcasting or otherwise making it available to others unless the originators (that'll be the company and their customers in this case) have explicitly given permission for it to be used in this manner. I'm sure it makes interesting reading though! ;-) Aye, that's why I didn't give any names or otherwise out. The company is bankrupt and the letters did not have address details on them - I assume the customer info was somewhere else in a database. ....not that I regularly trawl bankrupt PCs to be nosey when I get them in. ;o) Incidentally if I should not have been reading it - were PCWorld prosecuted for reading the data on Gary Glitter's computer when they took it in for a repair I wonder? -- Best Regards Niel Humphreys Snowdon Computers Ltd |
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"Snowdon Computers" wrote:
Aye, that's why I didn't give any names or otherwise out. The company is bankrupt and the letters did not have address details on them - I assume the customer info was somewhere else in a database. ...not that I regularly trawl bankrupt PCs to be nosey when I get them in. ;o) Incidentally if I should not have been reading it - were PCWorld prosecuted for reading the data on Gary Glitter's computer when they took it in for a repair I wonder? Their action was almost certainly defensible (legally at any rate). They could contend that they accessed the data in the execution of their duties and, given Mr Glitter presumably provided them with the machine to carry out some kind of repair or maintenance, permission to access his data was inferred. Anything else they found could not legally be shared with any other party, but as it was pretty clear the material was obscene and a criminal offence had been committed they had a duty to involve the Police. Indeed, had they failed to do so, they might of been liable to prosecution themselves. -- iv Paul iv [ Mail: ] [ WWW: http://www.hopwood.org.uk/ ] |
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Snowdon Computers wrote:
Incidentally if I should not have been reading it - were PCWorld prosecuted for reading the data on Gary Glitter's computer when they took it in for a repair I wonder? I'm somewhat intrigued as to how PCWorld actually managed to find it. Presumably Glitter wasn't stupid enough to have a folder called "child porn piccies" on his desktop or something. My laptop is off for repair now and I don't particularly want the repair man looking around and finding PGP private keys, e-mail passwords, and other private stuff. Cheers, Chris Howells |
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I'm somewhat intrigued as to how PCWorld actually managed to find it.
Presumably Glitter wasn't stupid enough to have a folder called "child porn piccies" on his desktop or something. He probably had them all in "my documents" :-} Lets face it, how many users do you know who actually have enough wits about them to be able mass-rename every jpg in a directory to something that isn`t a recognised file extension... -- Please add "[newsgroup]" in the subject of any personal replies via email * old email address "btiruseless" abandoned due to worm-generated spam * --- My new email address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it ;-) --- |
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Whenever I need to send my computer for work, I force the company to sign a
declaration that they wil not access any unneccesary folders. Most of my work is on my machine and is quite sensitive David McCallum "Chris Howells" wrote in message ... Snowdon Computers wrote: Incidentally if I should not have been reading it - were PCWorld prosecuted for reading the data on Gary Glitter's computer when they took it in for a repair I wonder? I'm somewhat intrigued as to how PCWorld actually managed to find it. Presumably Glitter wasn't stupid enough to have a folder called "child porn piccies" on his desktop or something. My laptop is off for repair now and I don't particularly want the repair man looking around and finding PGP private keys, e-mail passwords, and other private stuff. Cheers, Chris Howells |
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"David McCallum" wrote:
Whenever I need to send my computer for work, I force the company to sign a declaration that they wil not access any unneccesary folders. Most of my work is on my machine and is quite sensitive Possibly a sensible precaution, much in the same way many companies ask partners to sign NDAs. OTOH, it's not absolutely necessary as the Data Protection Act, Computer Misuse Act and, quite often, contractual obligations, prohibit access to information unless permission is explicitly given or it's reasonable to do so in execution of their duties. Indeed, actually putting some kind of explicit "thou shall not" agreement in place is just as likely to increase the level of curiosity. ;-) -- iv Paul iv [ Mail: ] [ WWW: http://www.hopwood.org.uk/ ] |
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