US Law Firms and the DPA

[fradis16]

Ha ha, yes I see the mistake. This should refer to my friends request!

[atticus]

Your "friend" wants a company to provide e-mails between herself and the company. Surely she should have those e-mails from her side anyway. So why is she wasting the company's time trying to find out what she already knows?

[dls]

They very clearly contain his or her name and thus contain information identifying a living individual.

No. This appears to suggest that the simple inclusion of a name makes it data. No, there must be information about that individual. There are two elements - the identification and the information.