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

  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. :-)
>