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Is The Law Society Selling on our Details?

  • 20-10-2010 6:21pm
    #1
    fe1ready
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭


    I received a letter this morning from Bloomsbury publishers flogging their latest legal books. No idea how they got my address or how they knew I was doing the professional exams.......unless of course my details were perhaps sold on to them by the law society or by the prepatory school i attended during the summer.


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  • #2
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    Quite possibly the Law Society sold them , for what it's worth within a couple of weeks of registering for accountancy exams I got blitzed with mail from every training provider in the country.
    They could only have got my details from the Institute.


  • #3
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭Grolschevik


    Unlikely to have been the professional body in either case. More likely the educational institution.


  • #4
    dermot_sheehan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dermot_sheehan


    I get a bunch of junk mail to the address that's in the law directory.

    I don't know if the law directory electronically sells the details that are in them or if a company extracts the information from the law directory.


  • #5
    Sangre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,175 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Never got anything like that and the law society have had my details for years. I think they'd have more than sense than to go around potentially breaching data protection laws.


  • #6
    Delancey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭Delancey


    Grolschevik wrote: »
    Unlikely to have been the professional body in either case. More likely the educational institution.

    In my case it could only have been the Professional Body - I had not yet signed up for classes.


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  • #7
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    fe1ready wrote: »
    I received a letter this morning from Bloomsbury publishers flogging their latest legal books. No idea how they got my address or how they knew I was doing the professional exams.......unless of course my details were perhaps sold on to them by the law society or by the prepatory school i attended during the summer.

    They (the publishers) have psyhic powers. I wouldn't worry about it. Just accept it.


  • #8
    Dan133269
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Dan133269


    Sangre wrote: »
    Never got anything like that and the law society have had my details for years. I think they'd have more than sense than to go around potentially breaching data protection laws.

    You would think so. However, in light of them turning blind eye to solicitors charging trainees for a training contract, I wouldn't be surprised.


  • #9
    kaiser sauze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭kaiser sauze


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    They (the publishers) have psyhic powers. I wouldn't worry about it. Just accept it.

    This is what is wrong with Irish society, people are afraid to ask questions, and if they do they are put down as some sort of miscreant for doing so.

    Why should he accept it?

    The original poster has raised a valid point, he feels his data has been shared without his, at the very least, implicit consent.

    To the OP, please follow through on this until you get an answer, your data is yours and yours alone; it is not some plaything for anyone to use in any manner they see fit.


  • #10
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,535 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    kaiser sauze wrote: »
    This is what is wrong with Irish society, people are afraid to ask questions, and if they do they are put down as some sort of miscreant for doing so.

    Why should he accept it?

    Why should he accept that the reason why the publisher's have his details is because they have supernatural powers to read his mind and know that he may be in the market for law books and therefore send him details of them?

    It seems to me that the real problem with Irish society is that they take every statement at face value.


  • #11
    kaiser sauze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭kaiser sauze


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    Why should he accept that the reason why the publisher's have his details is because they have supernatural powers to read his mind and know that he may be in the market for law books and therefore send him details of them?

    It seems to me that the real problem with Irish society is that they take every statement at face value.

    Your crude attempt at humour was not being called up on, hence the highlighting.


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