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The UK Limitation Act 1980 places a 6 year limitation on tort and simple
contract:
s.2 - An action founded on tort shall not be brought after the expiration
of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
s.5 - An action founded on tort shall not be brought after the expiration
of six years from the date on which the cause of action accrued.
<http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/docs/cp151apa.pdf>
It might thus be that the data is being held until Egg cannot be pursued in
either contract or tort.
Best wishes
Andrew
--On 11 May 2007 12:21 +0100 Duncan Langford <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One of my former students has just mailed me with a DTP query I'd like to
> share...
>
> He had an Egg card, and cancelled it. Some time later, he casually tried
> to access the Egg website, and discovered to his surprise that the
> account still appeared to be live. When he queried this with Egg, they
> told him:
>
>> For our own business reasons we retain application data on file, as
>> permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998. Currently we store
>> application data for six years.
>>
>> For your reassurance, all the information you've provided us with
>> is covered by this act. This regulates the way we use your
>> information and the purposes for which it's gathered. The Data
>> Protection Act stipulates that we must not keep your personal data
>> for any longer than necessary.
>
> The former student's query:
>
>> My query is over the statement of keeping data for longer than
>> necessary, and I don't understand why they should keep my data for
>> six years!! Seems a bit long.
>
> So, DTP gurus - IS six years 'a bit long'?
>
> Is there any consensus on just how long 'as long as necessary' actually
> is?
>
> Comments appreciated!
>
> - duncan
>
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> Ethics:AddisonWesley
> 'Internet Ethics' - MacMillan Press (UK) and St Martins Press (USA)
> 'Professional Issues in Computing' forthcoming (2007) from Thompson
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