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A company is a legal person.  Personal data relates to an identifiable, 
living *individual* (or natural person).


Paul Ticher
0116 273 8191
22 Stoughton Drive North, Leicester LE5 5UB

I hereby require any recipient of this message not to use my personal data
for direct marketing purposes.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carter, Antoinette (MCS)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Company names


A company is not a "person", so it's not "personal data" - unless of
course, the complaint is specific to a single person ie. a Director, in
which case you'd probably need to think about anonymising the
information...?

-----Original Message-----
From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Mendonca
Sent: 22 May 2006 09:44
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [data-protection] Company names

Hello
   Can anyone help me with the following please

BBC has supplied a list of company names and have asked whether Trading
Standards have received complaints about any of them.
Apparently we have
Are there any Data Protection issues giving the names of the company to
BBC?

  I'd be grateful for any help on this!
  Many thanks

Robert





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