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Is there a section of the Data Protection Act that prohibits organisations retaining old membership lists?

Is there a section of the Data Protection Act that prohibits organisations retaining and using old membership data AFTER a person has requested to be removed from their current membership list?

Public Comments

1. Yes. The DPA says says the org must not keep the individual's personal data after the purposes relating to the individual are completed - unless the licence covers some other purpose for which they must be kept such as a legal records-keeping requirement (examples: if the org has to keep records on who drove a vehicle on a particular day, or who made or received tax-liable payments, or who had a key to the store, and so on)