[ncc-services-wg] personal data in the NCC
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Dmitry Burkov
dburk at burkov.aha.ru
Wed Oct 20 13:57:48 CEST 2010
Jim, in general - you know the situation with Data Protection laws deployment around the world (as minimum, partly). There are still a lot of undresolved issues as even perfect law sometimes tell nothing about how deploy in real life. Dima On 20.10.2010 15:50, Jim Reid wrote: > On 20 Oct 2010, at 12:31, Sergey Myasoedov wrote: > >> in my opinion providing personal IDs of european citizens (CEOs) >> violates EC/EU law too. > > I think you may be mistaken. But since I'm not a lawyer, I don't know > what I'm talking about either. :-) I seriously doubt that the NCC > would have a policy that violated EU or Dutch law. Or that all the > NCC's membership, board and management would have failed to spot that > if it was the case. > > BTW, I complained to the UK authorities when the electricity company's > call centre demanded my date of birth before they'd talk to me about a > billing problem. They wanted that info for authentication. The > Information Commissioner's Office dismissed my complaint that this was > an unreasonable and disproportionate use of my Personal Data by the > power company. So their behaviour was legal even though in my > non-expert opinion they had violated the third principle of the EU > directive. > > And yes, I clearly have far too much spare time on my hands if I spend > it on things like formal complaints to the ICO. :-) >
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