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has anyone taken the time to read threw the T&C's of RAC and the AA?

it basically states that once you give them your data they hold the right to share (sell) it to any Tom, Richard or Harriet they please and this includes off-shore as well so not only will the data be held in the UK but also anywhere they see fit.

now this upsets me as it's MY data not theirs and i guess that telling them not to share my data will make no odds and they will do it anyway just like all the rest of the 'insurance' companies out there.

so this means that if i give them my mobile number i will get bombarded with TXT's if i give them my home number i will get bombarded with cold calling same with my email address and my front door mail box.

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Doesn't sound good.

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Nothing to say you have to provide a current phone number.
The data protection act trumps any t&c's they may even be illegal.

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^ this. I always give a false number when getting quotes etc. wonder if anyone has been bombarded on the number I've given.

In fact that's given me an idea, I'll start giving 'em my grumpy neighbours number from now on :)

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i always give a false number but thats not the point, the point is that unsuspecting public will just give it willynilly without ever knowing.

there is no option to opt-out which i think is illegal is it not.

the UK has gone mad i tell thee.

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I'm always cheeky and make my number 01234 123456 so it obviously not my number! And I have a second email for 'junk' type stuff for quotes etc.

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+1 and my name is always
Josh wa*nker


Well
Josh waker I put online, I've put other funny names in past with an old mobile and they have rang!
One guy asking for a mr Big D!ck.
that was a funny call but he acted as if it was a real name, but knew it was fake.

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Bibio, have you read that correctly? I thought that UK law stated that they cannot do this and that you have to explicitly give your consent. It cannot be made an integral part of the contract. Unless they are registered outside of the EU then they have to comply with the EU Data Protection Directive which is incorporated into the UK Data Protection Act. (Incidentally as there was no data protection laws in the US Microsoft used the EU directive as the basis of their data protection policy several years ago, followed by many other US IT companies.) A quick call or e-mail to the ICO (Information Commissioners Office) may remedy this or prove one way or the other.

A quick look at the the governments site and Wikipedia (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ction_Act_1998) would indicate this as well.

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problem is by buying their services you are agreeing to their T&C's with no option to opt out of marketing or data sharing.