> 192.com will remove your details from their database.  > You can do this
online through their website.

=

Why should you need to?

Did you know it was to be recorded on 192.com?

Did you know it was being collected from the data controllers who you
originally gave the data to?

Are you aware of the purposes it will be used for?

How are the principles being met?

Ian W.

----- Original Message -----
From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 3:12 PM
Subject: RE: Use of Postcodes


> 192.com will remove your details from their database.  You can do this
online
> through their website.
>
> Richard Gentry
> Loss Prevention Project Co-ordinator
> Telephone: 020 7432 2279
> Fax: 020 7432 2287
>
> e-mail [log in to unmask]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Paul Lightowlers" <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
> Sent: 16 November 2000 15:00
> To: "'Broom Doreen'" <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
> Cc: [log in to unmask] at Internet
> Subject: RE: Use of Postcodes
>
>
> Doreen,
>
> Have you seen www.192.com ? The company you mention should have asked for
> your colleagues house number to narrow the search. Bingo, all they have to
> do then is work out whether they're talking to a man or a woman and apply
> the relevant salutation.
>
> 192.com is pretty scary. Name, address, telephone number etc. Oh yes and a
> handy little street map just in case the person trying to find you wants
to
> pay a personal visit. Perhaps 192 would like to publish data on when your
> house will be empty as well! ;->
>
> I would suggest that the company you mention is probably using a similar
> data set gleaned from the electoral roll. This will not be resolved until
> you are allowed to opt out of the 'for sale' register next year. But I
have
> been told that 192 get the printed version of the register (full verion
> available in libraries, even after new legislation) and send it to India
to
> be keyed into a database (this is done twice to reduce errors).
>
> Regards
>
> Paul Lightowlers (Lead Business Analyst),
> Teignbridge District Council,
> Forde House,
> Newton Abbot,
> England,
> TQ12 4XX
>
> Tel. (01626) 361101 Fax. (01626) 334620
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Broom, Doreen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 16 November 2000 14:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Use of Postcodes
>
>
> All
> A colleague of mine had ordered some goods from a company - his order was
> taking longer than he had anticipated.  He phoned the company up today -
> they asked him his postcode which he related to them.  Anyway, the company
> said "Are you Mr X" to which he said no and relayed his own name.  The
> person the company named was in fact my colleague's next door neighbour
who
> in fact had recently died so I suppose you could say that it is not a
breach
> of the DP Act as it only relates to living individuals.  Surely this
should
> be tightened up as a postcode covers 6 addresses and you can find out
> people's private business.  The company should really have asked him his
> surname...In this instance it was not about a living individual but this
> sort of thing must happen all the time.
> Anyone else got any similar stories?
> Doreen Broom
> Data Administrator
> Scottish Borders Council
> Council HQ
> Newtown St.Boswells
> Melrose
> Borders  TD6 0SA
>
> Tel: 01835 824000
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