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Originally Posted by fidbod
Gather round boys and girls and let me tell you about MPs and their concern for data protection and privacy.
I have as many have been, in regular contact with my MP about Phorm albeit with limited sucess. So to my surprise there was a letter waiting from me when i got home last night.
Unable to contain my anticipation I opened to find a rather bland letter confirming that she has written to BERR on my behalf and has enclosed the reply from Shriti Vadera.
Not so bad a hear you musing but here is the kicker.
The letter from BERR did not reference me at all. In fact it was the photocopy of a response from BERR that my MP's office has recieved from a seperate complaint about Phorm. Bad enough and yet there was worse....
The response from BERR contained the full name, address and phone number of the other individual who had written to complain about Phorm.
It really makes me wonder if the majority of Parliament live in cloud cuckoo land and have no concept of data protection!!
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Of course you are reporting all that to the ICO aren't you? Report the DBERR and report the MP. Did neither of them spot that? Oh definitely - make a formal report and then follow it up for the enforcement response. At least it will get a correspondence going between BERR and ICO. if they don't say much back to you, then someone else can stick in an FOI response (in a few weeks once your complaint has run its course) and ask if the ICO have had cause to warn the BERR about DPA breaches.
Then when you have all that in your hands, (having anonymised any information provided by anyone else!!) go back to the BERR via your MP, and ask them both if they think DPA is important, in the light of their slackness, and start again with your question, on the basis that maybe now they appreciate the subject a little better and pay a little bit more attention to you than they did last time. I think they will be a little more focussed second time. These people hate being caught out.
The wheels of justice do grind slow - the trick is to keep turning them.