sirbenjamin
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Post by sirbenjamin on Nov 22, 2017 12:18:49 GMT
I am confused about why this is even being discussed or asked about. If it is a historical fact that Ebenezer Crumpleseizure stood as a candidate for the Hippopotamus Revolutionary Party in Lower Dribbling ward of Grimbly District Council in the local elections in 1993 and got 247 votes, and if your website/database/whatever only states those details (without any other identifying details such as address, email address, birth date or shoe size), then why is there even any doubt or discussion about it? Those are publicly available bits of information which have been available and accessible via multiple public sources for many years, and cannot be regarded as in any way sensitive or private, or worthy of being "forgotten". Perhaps there are other details or complications about the case which you haven't told us about, otherwise you would have told him/her to take a running jump without even needing to ask us about it. Why would anybody want to forget that? Deposit saved comfortably, a strong third place just 19 votes behind the Tories, and the LDs pushed into fourth. It marked an upturn in the electoral fortunes of the HRP under the inspired leadership of Roger Flatulence, and paved the way for Dr. John Bellcock's stunning victory in the Meatus North By Election the following month. I suspect he wants the record deleting because his shoe size is erroneously recorded as 8, when in fact it is of course 8 1/2. |
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Post by andrewteale on Nov 22, 2017 18:16:34 GMT
Thanks to everyone for their replies, including the people who sent PMs to me. I was being threatened with legal action and a complaint to the Information Commissioner, so I obviously had to take the matter seriously. I agree with everything which has been written in the thread.
I have added a notice to every page on LEAP as to the use of data.
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Post by yellowperil on Nov 22, 2017 19:15:29 GMT
Thanks to everyone for their replies, including the people who sent PMs to me. I was being threatened with legal action and a complaint to the Information Commissioner, so I obviously had to take the matter seriously. I agree with everything which has been written in the thread.I have added a notice to every page on LEAP as to the use of data. You really agree that Roger Flatulence's leadership was inspiring? |
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Post by piperdave on Dec 15, 2017 1:10:58 GMT
The 1995 Directive is still in force. It won't be replaced by the new General Data Protection Regulation until 25 May 2018. The right to erasure in the GDPR (as it is legally termed) is not absolute unless the processing is based on consent of the individual. Otherwise it is a qualified right and the interests of the person processing the personal data has to be weighed against the privacy of the individual. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 15, 2017 13:47:19 GMT
You do wonder how they would have exercised the duties of their office- would they have declared them to be a private matter?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 16:17:06 GMT
In 2015 my school had a mock election.
I came 4th place as the Conservative candidate with 37 votes, beating the Greens. Labour came 3rd with 41 votes. The Lib Dems took 2nd. UKIP won with 185 votes.
My school headmistress, who had told students not to vote for UKIP, refused to publish the election result in the school newspaper.
This is the opposite of this thread of course, election results that weren't made public.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 15, 2017 17:47:27 GMT
where was this school?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 17:48:47 GMT
Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 15, 2017 18:46:26 GMT
If you don't like towns in Buckinghamshire, Newport Pagnell is somewhat of a Welcome Break.
I'll get my Red Hen.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2017 18:47:59 GMT
Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. What’s Newport Pagnell like? Well done for not jumping on the UKIP bandwagon is the only positive comment I can draw. A bit boring. I prefer Buckingham as a place. |
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Dec 15, 2017 19:18:29 GMT
In 2015 my school had a mock election. I came 4th place as the Conservative candidate with 37 votes, beating the Greens. Labour came 3rd with 41 votes. The Lib Dems took 2nd. UKIP won with 185 votes. My school headmistress, who had told students not to vote for UKIP, refused to publish the election result in the school newspaper. This is the opposite of this thread of course, election results that weren't made public. I wonder how many of those students who voted UKIP did so simply because the headmistress told them not to?  |
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sirbenjamin
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Post by sirbenjamin on Dec 16, 2017 13:55:52 GMT
In 2015 my school had a mock election. I came 4th place as the Conservative candidate with 37 votes, beating the Greens. Labour came 3rd with 41 votes. The Lib Dems took 2nd. UKIP won with 185 votes. My school headmistress, who had told students not to vote for UKIP, refused to publish the election result in the school newspaper. This is the opposite of this thread of course, election results that weren't made public. I wonder how many of those students who voted UKIP did so simply because the headmistress told them not to? If it worked like that, everyone who ever looked at social media for five seconds would be voting Tory! Or, in the US, Democrat. |
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Post by andrewteale on Jul 24, 2018 13:55:50 GMT
An update on this.
I was contacted yesterday by two people regarding my hosting of the 2018 SOPNs on LEAP. One politely asked for his home address to be removed as he is in a position of public prominence. I was happy to comply with that request. The other complained that the 2018 SOPN for Hounslow breaches his privacy, but so far as I can see he doesn't actually appear on it. I have asked him to explain further.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 24, 2018 15:29:18 GMT
An update on this. I was contacted yesterday by two people regarding my hosting of the 2018 SOPNs on LEAP. One politely asked for his home address to be removed as he is in a position of public prominence. I was happy to comply with that request. The other complained that the 2018 SOPN for Hounslow breaches his privacy, but so far as I can see he doesn't actually appear on it. I have asked him to explain further. The first one seems reasonable, and if as you say he expressed it reasonably, that's fair enough. The second...very confusing. |
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Post by swanarcadian on Jul 24, 2018 16:40:45 GMT
An update on this. I was contacted yesterday by two people regarding my hosting of the 2018 SOPNs on LEAP. One politely asked for his home address to be removed as he is in a position of public prominence. I was happy to comply with that request. The other complained that the 2018 SOPN for Hounslow breaches his privacy, but so far as I can see he doesn't actually appear on it. I have asked him to explain further. Might he have been one of the 10 people who nominated one of the candidates? |
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Post by redvers on Jul 25, 2018 10:41:12 GMT
Thanks to everyone for their replies, including the people who sent PMs to me. I was being threatened with legal action and a complaint to the Information Commissioner, so I obviously had to take the matter seriously. I agree with everything which has been written in the thread. I have added a notice to every page on LEAP as to the use of data. I'm a rare poster, but a long-time lurker, and I'm just curious how this all got resolved. Did the erstwhile candidate give up the legal threats once it became clear you wouldn't budge, or did they actually initiate action against you? I'm assuming if the latter then the ICO (if that was the appropriate body) sided with you?
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Post by andrewteale on Jul 25, 2018 21:43:11 GMT
Thanks to everyone for their replies, including the people who sent PMs to me. I was being threatened with legal action and a complaint to the Information Commissioner, so I obviously had to take the matter seriously. I agree with everything which has been written in the thread. I have added a notice to every page on LEAP as to the use of data. I'm a rare poster, but a long-time lurker, and I'm just curious how this all got resolved. Did the erstwhile candidate give up the legal threats once it became clear you wouldn't budge, or did they actually initiate action against you? I'm assuming if the latter then the ICO (if that was the appropriate body) sided with you? I have heard nothing further from the original complainant or the ICO. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2018 19:47:48 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 27, 2018 19:58:02 GMT
Surely we are now entering into fairy never-never land where historic document can be changed at the will of an oddball from the truth to a fiction of the fashionable moment? At the time of the election that candidate had a name and an identity they freely used and it is a matter of legitimate legal and historic record who that candidate was. If subsequently that person has a touch of the vapours and decides to go do-wally that is no business of ours one way or another but it cannot ever be the basis of backward alteration to the clear truth of the matter. This sort of damn fool nonsense needs to be slapped down once for all before all our records are turned upside down on the whim of fools and freaks. |
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Post by andrewteale on Jul 27, 2018 20:11:33 GMT
Surely we are now entering into fairy never-never land where historic document can be changed at the will of an oddball from the truth to a fiction of the fashionable moment? At the time of the election that candidate had a name and an identity they freely used and it is a matter of legitimate legal and historic record who that candidate was. If subsequently that person has a touch of the vapours and decides to go do-wally that is no business of ours one way or another but it cannot ever be the basis of backward alteration to the clear truth of the matter. This sort of damn fool nonsense needs to be slapped down once for all before all our records are turned upside down on the whim of fools and freaks. I agree. People change their names all the time and that's not a problem; but altering the historical record is not on. |
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