[Gllug] data protection & spamming

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:06:13PM +0000, Benedikt Heinen wrote:

> The question is rather, can I get any recourse on costs caused at my end
> (when this started - I did do full systems checks to make sure that the
> information wasn't leaked on my end - i.e. take the mail servers offline,
> reboot from rescue disks and run full diagnostics on the systems to scan for
> any hint of trojans/back doors, etc, as I felt I needed to be sure it wasn't
> at my end before contacting the companies in question.)

*why* do you want to do this ?

1) to get some money to pay for your costs/time ? How much did you sink into this ?
   Would you not have had to put effort into coping with SPAM from other places ?
   I am not sure how much you could get, I doubt that it would be worth the extra
   effort.

2) To punnish the financial services companies -- make their life difficult ?
   If this is the case: just stop being a customer of theirs, withdraw your money
   and write a letter to the chairman saying why they have lost a customer.

The Information Commissioner (http://www.ico.gov.uk/) has got guidelines on
how an organisation must keep personal info confidential, etc. You may be able
to use them as a stick to hit the companies with. I still want to know *why*
you want to do this, don't you have anything else better to do with your life ?

-- 
Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/

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