[Opengenalliance] Update from Cornwall

[Francis Davey]

Quite. Data protection will be irrelevant where everyone is dead. Dead
people don't have personality rights (at least not in the UK). Data
protection won't necessarily prevent release anyway, but in this case it
sounds like it is irrelevant.

I have yet to see any legal reason why these registers should not be
publicly available. Organisations that hold them may have sound financial
reasons (at least sound to them) for doing what they do, but they do not
seem to be prevented from doing what you want.

Hence the solution is probably political/administrative but with legal
back-up in case anyone tries to use law as an excuse.

Francis

2013/1/19 Alexandra Eveleigh <aeveleigh at googlemail.com>

> Thanks Ben for help with threads!  For info., archives-nra is the UK
> equivalent of the US Archives & Archivists mailing list, but unlike A&A
> it's independently moderated rather than managed by the professional
> association.  Its origins lie with the National Register of Archives back
> in the 1990s (hence -nra) but it has long since operated as the main
> professional archivists' discussion forum in the UK.
>
> I wasn't thinking that TNA would offer legal advice - but they should be
> able to say whether or not they've been able to issue policy guidance to
> local archives, which would in turn give some idea of what GRO's current
> position is or isn't on matters that GRO are clearly seeing as linked (even
> if in reality they're not, or not really).  And I know the climate's
> supposed to be nice on the English riviera, but unless they've some really
> exceptionally long-lived people in Cornwall, I doubt Susan's D.P.
> responsibilities would be relevant anyway... ;)
>
> Alexandra
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
>
>> On 19 January 2013 13:08, Ben Brumfield <benwbrum at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the link to that mailing list, Alexandra -- I wasn't
>> > familiar with it at all.
>> >
>> > The 2011 thread can be read here:
>> >
>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind1110&L=ARCHIVES-NRA#160
>> >
>> > The 2012 reprise is here:
>> >
>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind1201&L=ARCHIVES-NRA#164
>>
>> Do you think a year later counts as "shortly"? OTOH, it seems Susan
>> Healy is TNA's data protection officer, so probably not the kind of
>> legal advice we're actually interested in.
>>
>> >
>> > Ben
>> >
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