"A topic of interest to me would be to have a clear idea of how far you can go to track down information about people bearing in mind data protection constraints".
We have to work within the 8 principles of the DPA 1998, however the real guidelines for practical purposes are twofold:
- We can get any information on the public record - sometimes using our databases there is more than first imagined
- We can use any information freely given by a member of the public (telephone or in the field) providing we do not hold ourselves out to be anybody other than who we truly are - this is where the skill of the right conversation/approach is helpful
Very often a linked address on a database sets us off on another path or we discover additional property owned. Neighbours sometimes give clues - away at their holiday home , on their boat etc
In the end it comes down to cost and value of the case.
We also have all the surveillance resource as you will have seen from last months e-newsletter and can give advice re best/most cost effective deployment. Following someone to another address or different place of work sometimes produces the result but if there is nothing to find we will not find it ! Also assets offshore are difficult to pin down.
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