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Data protection act breaches by parties / candidates

  • 25-01-2011 11:18am
    #1
    Reesy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭


    Just saw this on ENN:
    "The Irish Examiner reports that the Data Protection Commissioner has written to political parties to warn them about texting and emailing people in the run-up to the general election. Commissioner Billy Hawkes has warned parties against using information from third parties to contact voters. The office said it had received numerous complaints during previous campaigns. According to the office of the DPC, "in many cases, the individual had no previous contact with the political party or candidate and was concerned at the manner in which their details were sourced. Subsequent investigations revealed that contact details were obtained from sources such as sports clubs, friends, colleagues and schools."

    Anybody suffered this? I'd go bananas if I got an unsolicited text from a party that I dislike!


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  • #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I know our secondary school teacher ran for election.
    They must have checked the local register as I got a letter about her as a candidate and she noted I was not registered.

    Probably a few hundred of these letters were sent and they were checked against the register and included "as a former student". So my name and address was definitely pulled from the school

    I don't have a big issue with it realy.
    If I was running for election and was a teacher I'd probably do the same. I don't know the Data Protection rules though


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