Hi Sue
Quite honestly I had more ears on what the monsters where doing inside
the house without me there! Had to take pity on the guy though, someone
had already taken his front teeth....
Makes you aware of how easy it would be to twist the Act though and
have home owners handing over their details all over the place. He even
put his hand on his heart and promised that if we didn't use the I had
his word that he would bin my details. Yeah right....
Oh I must be feeling very cynical this morning.... :-)
Karen
Karen Waite
Corporate Records Manager
Cornwall IT Services
Megashed
Royal Cornwall Hospital
Truro. Cornwall. TR1 3LJ
Ph: 01872 254500
Fax: 01872 254508
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>>> HOWLETT Sue L <[log in to unmask]> 10/04/2006 09:09:00 >>>
Karen
You are more polite than I would have been especially when you
normally
get "Hello Darling is your husband home" or "Alright love" They
usually
leave my property ashen faced, and the dog helps LOL, but thanks for
sharing
Regards.
Sue
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Subject: [data-protection] You're not going to believe this
Dear Colleagues
I thought I'd start our Monday off with a bit of Ridleys "believe it
or
not".
I had a knock on my front door last week and opened it to find a very
civilian looking young twenties-something guy with his front teeth
missing (just giving you the flavour). He was holding what looked to
be
a stack of flyers in his hand. Home alone with my two young toddlers
I
was on high alert anyway. He said he was offering home renovations
internally or externally. Of some interest as we'd been looking for
such a business, I stepped out into the driveway shutting the door and
children behind me in house.
I indicated a cautious interest so I got the big spiel, if a bit of a
wet one, and he immediately asked for all my details so someone could
call us back later that evening. To which I flatly refused. More
spiel
so I pointed to a house along the road who had the sort of thing we're
looking to doing, to which he immediately said they couldn't that type
of thing. Now, I started getting a bit sus as it was not a major
piece
of work at all. Again he waved his flyer around and asked for my
details. Again I refused, but I reached out and touched one of his
flyers to pull of his bundle and said, "I tell you what, you give me
one
of these flyers and we'll call your company ourselves and get some
information" to which he pulled them away out of my hands saying he
can't hand the flyers out (!!!).
So I said, right then are you in the phone book, to which he said no
as
well. Laughing and smiling the whole time he tried repeatedly to get
my
details to which I said no each time and finally "are you trying to
tell
me as a company out to sell a product you're not going to give me one
of
your flyers, you're not in the phonebook, YET you want me to hand over
all my details so you can "call" me later??? Are you serious???".
To which he replied - and this is what this fine tale has been
building
up to dear colleagues - he turned around and actually said to me
<you're
gonna love this>: "I know I know, but there are some laws around to
sort
of protect information you know and I know of them so I can't give
you
any information about our business."
Once my jaw picked up of the ground I snorted and gave him a hard
stare
and asked if he would be referring to the Data Protection Act to which
he nodded profusely with another BIG SMILE. I said something back to
the affect of, are you aware that the DPA legislation is for personal
information about individuals and to my knowledge it doesn't concern
big
business but is there to protect the civilian.
To which his smile dropped and he said I am obviously a smart lady who
is finding him bit dodgy <to which I raised an eyebrow at him but said
nothing> and said, just for me he'll give me one of his flyers which
he
is NOT allowed to do and will probably get into to trouble for, shoved
the flyer into my hand, and flew out the driveway at a mile a minute.
I
went in a locked up the house.
Thing is I think he was legit, being Cornwall there is a woeful lack
of
professionalism in local businesses and door knocking is common, but I
can't believe that door knocking to drum up business is now putting
the
homeowner on the defensive as though WE are invading THEIR privacy!!!
I thought I must share this new twist and interpretation of the law
with my DPA colleagues. Obviously it shows a vulnerability that if a
homeowner is not as aware of the law they would hand over all their
personal details believing this person and the DPA is there to protect
big business. Shiester or legit? Hard to tell. But he lost me when
1)
he "couldn't " give me a flyer 2) insisted he could only take my own
personal/property details 3) not in the phone book yet been "around
for
years" 4) and badly spouted the DPA to me.
Welcome to Monday..... forgive the length anything less would have
been
misleading.
Karen
Karen Waite
Corporate Records Manager
Cornwall IT Services
Megashed
Royal Cornwall Hospital
Truro. Cornwall. TR1 3LJ
Ph: 01872 254500
Fax: 01872 254508
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