On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Tony McGregor wrote:
That's irrelevant. The act applies to "Any writing on any material" and "Any information recorded or stored by means of any tape-recorder, computer, or other device; and any material subsequently derived from information so recorded or stored" amongst other things.
He has a right to access, correction and removal of the information after a reasonable time. If refuse to correct the information he can ask for a statement to be attached to it, and forwarded to people who have accessed the information.
Moving the archive off shore won't help either if the information is "held by" a New Zealand agency. I.E. if the list is a UoW list but someone else hosts the archives it's probably still covered.
``Agency''--- (a) Means any person or body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, and whether in the public sector or the private sector; Uck.... so it applies to individuals as well? Someone could e.g. demand that certain emails are deleted and/or corrected? Wow. That could create havoc... What about newsgroups?
University administration is libel to see a law suit and panic. We ^^^^^
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