LinuxLearner wrote:
> >> Which in my view is most probably a breach of Data Protection Act
> >> provisions. e.g. I get regular 'invites' from Facebook, though I have
> >> never given Facebook consent to email me (nor ever given anyone I know
> >> consent to give Facebook my email). This infuriates me, no end: it's
> >> SPAM, plain and simple, which *big* business gets away with.
I'm new to this DPA stuff (and for Linux users I think this is
inevitably on topic) but at
www.ico.gov.uk:
"Personal data means data which relate to a living individual who can be
identified
(a) from those data, or
(b) from those data and other information which is in the possession of,
or is likely to come into the possession of, the data controller,
and includes any expression of opinion about the individual and any
indication of the intentions of the data controller or any other person
in respect of the individual."
The phrase "and includes" looks to me like a widely phrased get-out, but
there it is.
> > But this is the Facebook users wanting to contact you. How else
> > could it work?
>
> Maybe it shouldn't work. ;) Maybe, just maybe, *I* should control data
> about myself, and no other, without *my* consent. {period}.
So ideally you'd want me prevented from taking a photo which includes
you in a public place?
Keeping it short ;-)
Anthony
