Getting an agency to remove all your personal details from its databases..

**MikeP** · 5 July 2006, 00:08

Just mail the agent - "Please removeme from your database". Gets the job done for me (usually in response to some daft job email for an icepick expert or similar nonsense). They must comply under the DPA.

**The Lone Gunman** · 5 July 2006, 07:43

Just mail them with a CC to your own email (as some form of proof).

If you get any more mail from them point out they are breaking the DPA. Pass on their details to the appropriate authorities.

**ratewhore** · 5 July 2006, 12:21

You need to contact their data controller and tell them. They then have 28 days to comply before you can report them to the Information Commissioners office. They can then be fined but going by examples like Thames Water leakage, I doubt they will fine them at all...

It's also against the Electronic Communications Act btw...

**DaveB** · 5 July 2006, 13:06

Originally posted by ratewhore

You need to contact their data controller and tell them. They then have 28 days to comply before you can report them to the Information Commissioners office. They can then be fined but going by examples like Thames Water leakage, I doubt they will fine them at all...

It's also against the Electronic Communications Act btw...

The Infomation Commisioner is actually reather Gung Ho about fining transgressors. It takes a while for them to get the case together but once they do they have no problem with giving people a kicking.

Getting an agency to remove all your personal details from its databases..