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05:09:58 on Wed, 9 Oct 2013, Grimbaldus <[log in to unmask]>
writes
>On another forum I haunt, a poster has stated the following:
>
>They received a confirmation from Royal Mail of the future redirection of their mail. They had not requested this.
I'm going to assume a scammer has done this.
>Upon enquiry, they were told that the new address was "confidential" and could not be disclosed because of [wait for it] "the Data Protection
>Act".
>
>It seems to me that, by definition, the new address is the poster's PD,
Surely it's the scammer's PD, assuming he lives there. Otherwise it's
yet another unknown person's data.
> or RM has acted improperly and RM is possibly in breach of the Fourth and Seventh Principles.
They are acting properly (as one of the 7th Principle activities
involved in accepting a redirection request) in warning of the impending
redirection and asking if the instructions they've received are correct.
If they now cancel the instructions, the 4th Principle situation is
resolved.
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Roland Perry
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