Disclosure of personal data to unknown third parties

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Hoppy Napoli
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Dear Electoral Commission,

Your web site: yourvotematters.co.uk/faq/registering-to-vote/registering-to-vote-with-a-protected-national-insurance-number

states "None of the information you provide while registering to vote will be disclosed."

Yet that is untrue. Personal private data, provided when registering to vote, is disclosed to American controlled companies when the electoral registers are published.

Please list all the entities known to the Electoral Commission who get all or some of the personal private data provided by potential voters when they register to vote.

We know about MI5, the Police National Computer and political parties but what about the rest, so misleadingly concealed by the Electoral Commission's untrue assertion mentioned above ?

Yours faithfully,

HN.

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FOI, Electoral Commission

Dear Hoppy Napoli,
 
Our Ref: FOI 037-19 Electoral Register    
 
Thank you for your request under the Freedom of Information Act dated 19
February 2019, concerning:
 
Your web site:  
yourvotematters.co.uk/faq/registering-to-vote/registering-to-vote-with-a-protected-national-insurance-number
states "None of the information you provide while registering to vote will
be disclosed."
 
Yet that is untrue. Personal private data, provided when registering to
vote,  is disclosed to American controlled companies when the electoral
registers are published.
 

 1. Please list all the entities known to the Electoral Commission who get
all or some of the personal private data provided by potential voters
when they register to vote.

 
The Commission aims to respond to requests for information promptly and
within the statutory timeframe of twenty working days.
 
You may expect to receive a reply sent from the Commission by 19 March
2019.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Daniel Howard
Access to Information Officer (FOI and DPA)
 
The Electoral Commission
[1][Electoral Commission request email]
[2]electoralcommission.org.uk
 
 
 
 

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FOI, Electoral Commission

Dear Hoppy Napoli,

 

Our Ref: FOI 037-19

 

Thank you for your email to the Electoral Commission dated 19 February
2019.

 

The Commission aims to respond to requests for information promptly and
has done so within the statutory timeframe of twenty working days.

 

Your request is in bold below followed by our response.

 

Your web site:  
yourvotematters.co.uk/faq/registering-to-vote/registering-to-vote-with-a-protected-national-insurance-number
states "None of the information you provide while registering to vote will
be disclosed."

 

Yet that is untrue. Personal private data, provided when registering to
vote,  is disclosed to American controlled companies when the electoral
registers are published.

 

1.    Please list all the entities known to the Electoral Commission who
get all or some of the personal private data provided by potential voters
when they register to vote

 

Our response is as follows:

 

We hold some of the information you have requested. 

 

Access to the full Electoral Registers and the information therein, is
prescribed in the Representation of the People Regulations 2001 (as
amended).  The details of who can receive this information are available
on the Electoral Commissions website at the following link:

[1]https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/_...

 

Under the same legislation, any person may purchase a copy of the Edited
or Open Register from an individual Electoral Registration Officer (ERO). 
We do not hold information pertaining to individual purchases of registers
from local authorities and suggest you contact your local Electoral
Registration Officer to confirm who may have purchased the open register
in your local authority area.

 

We accept that the information provided on the yourvotematters website
could be clarified so that people are aware that electoral law allows
access to electoral registers for certain purposes and we will be updating
that information to better reflect the law as it stands.

 

I trust that this information satisfies your request.

If you are not satisfied with this response, please note that the
Commission operates a review procedure, details of which can be found on
the Commission website at:
[2]http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/ab...

Please also note that if you have exhausted all internal Commission review
procedures and you are still not satisfied you have the right to appeal to
the Information Commissioner. Details of this procedure can be found on
the ICO website: [3]https://ico.org.uk/

 

Yours sincerely

Daniel Howard

Access to Information Officer (FOI and DPA)

 

The Electoral Commission

[4][Electoral Commission request email]

[5]electoralcommission.org.uk

 

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3. https://ico.org.uk/
4. mailto:[Electoral Commission request email]
5. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/

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