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Electoral Registration: Ethical Implications and the Law Librarian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Jonathan Gordon-Till
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Jonathan Gordon-Till considers recent developments relating to ethical issues surrounding the purpose and function of the electoral register.

Extract

In the United Kingdom the electoral roll or register is one of the most fundamental resources for accessing information about adult UK residents. Apart from the register itself, third parties have traditionally made use of the raw name and address data to provide members of the public or certain professions access to derived databases, data sets or re-packaged raw data.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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References

Gordon-Till, J. (1998a) Cameo on the World Wide Web. Managing Information 5(7), 5355.Google Scholar
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