Speaking as the former Director of Consumer and Legal Affairs for Europe's
largest credit reference agency my answer would be no you do not have to
delete it. We held records of defaults and CCJ's for six years regardless
of whether they had been paid as the information is important in making
judgements regarding future behaviour.
Alasdair Warwood
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> From: Broom, Doreen <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Alleged Sexual Harrassment - DPA Exemption
> Date: 10 July 2000 14:13
>
> Hi
> Leif Wilks stated "Personal information cannot be held "just in case"".
> Surely though if an allegation such as this was to be made then is it not
in
> the best interests of an organisation to have that information to hand
> should the same sort of claim be made at a later stage.
> This happens at my Council where a data matching exercise has taken place
to
> find Council Tax debtors - who may be employed by the Council. They
usually
> have files on these debtors for historical resons i.e. if there is a
known
> debtor and the same situation arises then they can request a meeting with
> the member of staff should the incident arise again and appropriate is
taken
> e.g. disciplinary etc. Can ayone advise if they think this procedure is
> wrong as even though they once had a debt (it may be cleared) and then
falls
> into debt again - is that a different scenario and should the information
be
> deleted after the debt is cleared?
> All very confusing...any help would be appreciated.
> Doreen
>
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