The Consulting Association, an organisation that ran a database containing details on 3,213 construction workers, is facing prosecution by the ICO. The database, which was used by over 40 construction companies to vet individuals for employment, included information about construction workers’ personal relationships, trade union activity, and employment history.

So keep sending in your complaints about RLP and others.

Excellent new Now lets get RLP Report them here https://www.ico.gov.uk/Global/contact_us.aspx

Incidentally with the help of some very resourceful;) people a complete biography is being put together about this company it's associates & all of those involved since it's inception which when completed & confirmed will be put into the public domain ........................Lets see how they feel when they are longer able to hide behind some virtually anonymous website

I will be ringing the ICO tomorrow to make a complaint about RLP. When TK Maxx took my name and address, they did not once mention to me that it would be passed onto RLP or anyone else. I thought is was purely for there records. This is a breach of the Data protection Act..

A little digging will show that RLP are registered with the ICO, with registration number Z8131406 (you can look them up here).

I'm not sure on what basis a complaint to the ICO might be made.

There may be grounds for a complaint with regards access to data:

From here:

10. What Personal Data do you hold?

 

You are notified that the personal information we hold may be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), to make employment decisions, decisions regarding the provision of credit and for the purposes of crime prevention and detection. Access to the information may be available to the Claimant, the Courts, legal advisors and RLP, where there is a legitimate reason for doing so in accordance with the Act.

The Act does not require any reason at all for data access.

I will be ringing the ICO tomorrow to make a complaint about RLP. When TK Maxx took my name and address, they did not once mention to me that it would be passed onto RLP or anyone else. I thought is was purely for there records. This is a breach of the Data protection Act..

No but it requires permission of the subject to process it onto their data base which appears to have not been given here In fact it would appear that the subject has deliberately been misled into giving their details not having been warned of the true purpose - namely to extort money

To be honest, I am getting a little confused now. I am not sure if I should complain or not. It seems from other threads, that they were warned that they would be hearing from RLP. I was in the office for 5 mins max and nothing was mentioned to me that my details would be forwarded on to a civil recovery comp. My partner and 2 sons were also shopping in TK maxx as well, and the man who questioned me said "don't worry they don't even have to know you have been in here." Luckily, I did mention to my partner straight away what happened as I would have been very embarrassed after getting a letter demanding £137.00!!

No but it requires permission of the subject to process it onto their data base which appears to have not been given here In fact it would appear that the subject has deliberately been misled into giving their details not having been warned of the true purpose - namely to extort money

If (s)he was not informed that this might happen, then the complaint would be that (s)he was not informed as to how the information would be processed (see the legal obligations for data controllers - "If I'm asked to pass on personal information, would the people about whom I hold information expect me to do this?").

sam complain about RLP AND T K Maxx - Why RLP - because RLP are using that data to extort money from you which I suspect was never the reason they were granted a license by the ICO ........... also they claim to be a DCA AND a CRA & yet don't require a consumer credit license............ go figure