Jeremy Hoad wrote:
> But as far as I am aware the student would have to pay Experian for the
> priviledge of correcting wrong information which they had no control over in
> the first place.
I'll be interested to see any further informed legal opinion on this,
but from personal experience, this is the way which Experian operates at
the moment in its other business. We had a credit check refused, I had
to pay my two pounds to Experian to see my record. It turns out that a
catalogue company had supplied goods to someone using my name at an
address we had left three years previously; the goods had
(unsurprisingly) not been paid for and the catalogue company had
therefore passed information to Experian indicating that I was a bad
credit risk. This then sat on my credit file until I discovered it.
Seems to me that this is analagous to the student situation (no control
over information held by a third party), and although I think that the
way this works is appalling (I sent various letters to all involved in
my situation muttering about defamation), I suspect that it complies
with the law at present.
--
Iain Rowan
Head of the Student Office
University of Sunderland
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