[ncc-services-wg] personal data in the NCC

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. :-)