I do like waking people up on a dreary Monday morning, so I hope no one took
offence to my missive!
I've only recently joined One 2 One, and can assure you that we are
revisiting our data protection standards..
by the way..
- Dates of birth are used for fraud prevention purposes
- The address to which people should write when objecting to the receipt of
direct mail is in the process of being changed (the decision has been taken,
the material is at the printers or awaiting the software programmer to fight
her way through the floods and make the necessarty changes to the web site)
- I am horrified that you havn't received a reply to any letter sent to the
One 2 One Data Protection Manager - but you know who it is now so there
should be no excuse!! (Having checked my records, I havn't received any
letter from you)
Regards to all!!
Martin Hoskins
-----Original Message-----
From: J F Hitches [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 6 November 2000 09:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Comments from colleagues
The comments from Martin Hoskins from One2One have certainly
helped me to understand their data protection policies and why
they do not seem to operate in accordance with the ODPC guidance!
For example, when you register a pay as you go phone they ask for
Date of birth with no explanation as to why they need it.
If you do not wish to have your data used for marketing by
One2One or other organisations you have to write separately to
the Data Protection Officer at a different address to the one
where you are sending the registration data - just what the
Commissioner likes in making things easy!
If you send a letter addressed to the Data Protection Officer
with your registration, and ask that it be passed on, you get no
reply!
Been there, done that, heard nothing from them.
It all makes you think they are a good, reputable, law abiding
firm.
John Hitches
John Hitches
Information Security Officer
and Data Protection Officer
Kingston University
Telephone 020 8547 7768
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