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RSS asks ONS for census confidentiality clarification
publication date: Sep 3, 2010
RSS vice-president, Jill Leyland, has written to the Director General of ONS, Stephen Penneck, asking how ONS would respond to requests for census information if asked by the police or security services.
In her letter, Jill Leyland writes: "It goes without saying that protecting the confidentiality of
individual responses to any survey is a basic principle for any statistician;
we know it is a fundamental tenet of the ONS as well as being enshrined in the
Code of Practice. "However one or two people have raised questions as to whether clauses in the 2007 Statistics and Registration Service Act might effectively oblige the ONS under certain circumstances to hand over individual data for non-statistical purposes to the police or security services." |
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