By the way the link in the below
http://complianceandprivacy.com/News-Ofcom-silent-calls.asp says:
"The original Data Protection Act of 1984 was largely created to address the
frustrations of people faced with mountains of direct mail addressed to a
deceased loved one."
This doesn't make sense given that even today the position of information
about the deceased under the Data Protection Act seems to be rather cloudy,
as is evidenced by the occasional postings on the subject to this group.
Or if it was the spur, it didn't address the problem.
See, for instance,
http://www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConNarrative.46&chapterId=230
"Data Protection Act 1998"
"Access to data on the deceased"
"The data subject rights of an individual end with death."
Presumably therefore if there is no right of access, there is equally still
no protection of the use of data about the deceased. I distinguish with
attempts that I can imagine that have been made by such companies to clean
up their databases so that hurt is not caused etc.
Nick Landau
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Trent
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Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: [data-protection] Silent Calls
Not sure if anyone is following this. It's all about predictive diallers
and there being no agent present when the call is answered. This is now
unlawful.
And good PR is being made out of it:
http://complianceandprivacy.com/News-AMCAT-dumps-silent-calls.asp
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