http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/connectivity_ico/
"Connectivity discussed their proposed service with the ICO and we have
provided advice on compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA) and Privacy
and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).
"We understand that the service is privacy friendly in that it will only
connect people when the recipient agrees to take the call and even then it
will do so without divulging their number. We made it absolutely clear to
Connectivity that they should not use numbers where there was any doubt
about whether the consumer was happy for their information to be used in
this way."
"Connectivity is aware that the law requires them to remove any numbers
relating to consumers who request
that their information is removed from the directory service. Opting out of
the service should be made as easy as possible for anyone who does not want
their details to be used for the directory service"
The key statement is "We made it absolutely clear to Connectivity that they
should not use numbers where there was any doubt about whether the consumer
was happy for their information to be used in this way". If there are large
numbers of complaints". If the service gets large numbers of complaints,
there must be doubts as to how they get their details.
C
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