Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

[Suzie999]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

Write, tricking them into putting all these points (all the stuff that they have no business knowing), in writing. Say nothing about Data Protection at this point. Once you have it in writing, you can then challenge them as to the source of that information.

There are several potential DPA breaches:

The landlord may have disclosed confidential information about you when speaking to the neighbours.
The neighbours may disclosed confidential information about you to the landlord.
The landlord may have passed that information to the council.
The Council may already have that information elsewhere, but have used it for an unrelated purpose.

Thank you

I think that's what I've decided is the way I want to proceed before making a decision.

Basically I want to know what personal data they have gathered and recorded concerning me and my 'private' life

[Suzie999]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

Are you or your son on Facebook you may like many others have put things on there if your son is at Uni he may have stated that on facebook its actually quite easy to find out about people

Very unlikely.

If they had accessed his Facebook (they don't know his name btw) they'd know he finished Uni 18 months ago.

As for my profile: there is no information that is visible to the public. I work with children, so even though I have a profile, I barely use it.

We have incredibly strict policies concerning social media, data protection (ironically) and child protection (to name but a few) that I find it easier not to give out any personal information on there.

That being said, in the very unlikely event that they have found any info from Facebook, they've still gathered it, stored it and used it. Highly dubious!

[wales01man]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

You can SAR the housing association for all the data they hold on you but don't forget what you are saying the manager knows might still be in her head not written or logged down anywhere

[Suzie999]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

She admitted that she'd never visited my address and was reading from notes at the time. The guy who had visited my home was also in attendance at the meeting and freely spoke about visiting my home on multiple occasions.

So no, they have recorded my personal information and used it.

[wales01man]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

Heres hoping the notes are recorded somewhere its a stupid manager who records officially something that can come back and bite them, WE have had crap from our previous Housing Association and know what they are like for a charity they are all the same I expect totally uncharitable.
Hope you can get to the bottom of this

[bluebottle]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

Heres hoping the notes are recorded somewhere its a stupid manager who records officially something that can come back and bite them, WE have had crap from our previous Housing Association and know what they are like for a charity they are all the same I expect totally uncharitable.
Hope you can get to the bottom of this

If they are a registered charity, Wales, have you thought of reporting them to the Charity Commission?

[wales01man]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

When I tried to complain to the HA I got accused of being a racist as I was English in a welsh HA I researched complaints about the HA and decided they got away with so much it would not be worth the hassle .
having been repossessed 2 years before I had just got over that and wanted a peaceful life it prompted a move from wales back to England a new start a new life now we are happier than ever from being worth over 600k in 2008 to have little now its great and 1000% better.

[CleverClogs]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

The guy who had visited my home was also in attendance at the meeting and freely spoke about visiting my home on multiple occasions.

Did he ever have the opportunity to plant any listening devices?

[bluebottle]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

When I tried to complain to the HA I got accused of being a racist as I was English in a welsh HA I researched complaints about the HA and decided they got away with so much it would not be worth the hassle .
having been repossessed 2 years before I had just got over that and wanted a peaceful life it prompted a move from wales back to England a new start a new life now we are happier than ever from being worth over 600k in 2008 to have little now its great and 1000% better.

The complaints didn't relate to anything involving :flock: by any chance? It might explain why they were so tetchy. :grin:

[Suzie999]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

Did he ever have the opportunity to plant any listening devices?

Ha Ha, you might be on to something there as I'm often to be found chanting that my son was at Uni 18 months ago and that I work at x location

[IanM]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

What was their reason for the meeting?

[Suzie999]

Re: Landlord asking neighbours personal questions about me

What was their reason for the meeting?

Because I owed them rent.

Anyway, still no reply from this woman's manager. I'll leave it for the full 48 as a courtesy and then send the letter I've constructed to their CEO as they obviously don't give a toss :mmph: