Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Data controllers’ compliance with Section 10 notices: the ICO now assess.

I’ve written previously about the Information Commissioner’s assessment of organisations’ compliance with S10 notices. S10 is a mechanism by which a data subject can force a data controller to stop processing his/her personal data, or stop it from processing in a certain way, where such processing is causing substantial, unwarranted damage or distress. Previously the…

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Southern Rail’s disgusting treatment of wheelchair users

My valued friend and co-campaigner told me about his disgusting experience at the hands of Southern Rail staff. I have reblogged the below from the excellent Transport for All website. I very much hope Southern Rail – and other rail providers – take it seriously. Their response to it doesn’t inspire confidence though; they clearly…

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ICO on S42 assessments of data controller’s compliance with S10

Here’s the ICO’s response in full. Editing errors, such as the chopped-off sentence “In circumstances where an individual believes,” were in the original. 21 July 2016   Case Reference Number RCC0621317   Dear Mr Paulley   I write in response to your correspondence of 17 March 2016 in which you have raised concerns about the…

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