In message <[log in to unmask]>, at
14:04:22 on Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Georgina Chambers
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Is it ok for Councils to use s29 to obtain information from credit reference
>agencies to assist with the detection of housing benefit fraud?
You could ask, but I thought there was a general agreement that
companies whose core business was *selling* data, did not have a moral
responsibility to hand it out free in this way.
(As others have noted, they don't have a legal *requirement* to hand it
out under s29, either).
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Roland Perry
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