
Data protection, rights and access: Anonymise it!
One of the ways to avoid falling foul of the Data Protection Act is to work with and share anonymised, rather than 'raw' data. You can find anonymisation techniques in the Anonymisation Code of Practice, Appendix 2 (November, 2012) from the Information Commissioner's Office.
Ellie Bates, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, talks about how to deal with data that contains sensitive personal information. Ellie was a 3rd year PhD student. Her PhD title was: "Exploring the place and time dynamics of vandalism". She was looking at comparing high level and low level areas of vandalism by means of analysing sensitive personal crime data obtained from the police and focus groups with community police.
The data described is sensitive personal information not only because it contains information about criminals and victims but because it contains locations of crimes.
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