National Insurance Number & consent: DWP say wider NINO use is no longer a NONO
16 December 2015
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Government policy towards the wider use of the National Insurance Number (NINo) as a general identifier appears to have changed again. This ever shifting policy now illustrates that well know saying “What goes around comes around”. As is well known, the “general identifier” powers in the Data Protection Act (Schedule 1, paragraph 1(4)) have never been activated with respect to the NINo. This is because Government well knows that there are lots of data controllers using the NINo for all sorts of
