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Not sure about this in the US, but I'm pretty sure that in the UK, gathering a database of intelligence on competitors' staff earnings would be a violation of t
by bencollier49 10y ago
Not sure about this in the US, but I'm pretty sure that in the UK, gathering a database of intelligence on competitors' staff earnings would be a violation of the Data Protection Act.
- viraptor 10y agoIt would be interesting if this came to a trial. DPA protects only information that identifies people. If Uber collected information on cars instead which is anonymous and then correlated it with data it already has access to, so it only deanonymises its drivers, that's... I don't know. IANAL, but I read the DPA a few times and I think it's an edge case. If someone has better idea, I'd love to hear it.
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- makomk 10y agoThe Data Prrotection Act specifically covers this: "* “personal data” means data which relate to a living individual who can be identified (a) from those data, or (b) from those data and other information which is in the possession of, or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller" Sorry, but they already thought of that one.