You posted two people's personal information without their consent to a forum without having given them a reasonable time to respond. You're acting like a petulant child and you're not realising that your actions are inappropriate and potentially breaking laws. You have absolutely no evidence that Red Ensign have done anything wrong yet here you are dragging people's names through the mud in a very public forum and posting their personal details without their consent.
Yes. GDPR and derivatives apply to data within the jurisdiction, people within the jurisdiction, and citizens from that jurisdiction while elsewhere or whose data is held elsewhere. It was written specifically in this way, as is explained within the text (it's not a particularly long read).
Can you please show me the allegations of wrongdoing to which you're referring.
when their data is in the UK, yes. The law stops companies in the UK abusing anyone's data and all companies everywhere abusing British citizen data.
I don't get this.
That's not the case. The information is made available for use by people, but the information being publicly visible doesn't mean it's free to use or republish. You still need consent of the individual to publish their personal information.
So the email address could have been shared by a Turkish company.
Yes, but it seems to have ultimately been used by a British company so still covered. It's possible the mailer was sent out by a Turkish company and the British company had nothing to do with it aside from requesting a mailer for a given group of people, in which case they've not processed or held the data and therefore done nothing wrong.
it's fundamentally the subject of the thread. You can't demand privacy while stripping others of it.
It's the law, so your opinion is irrelevant. Many things are available in the public domain, photos are a good example. You can post someone else's photo, but you don't have the rights to do so and will be on the wrong side of the law in so doing. This is a common misconception and getting worse over time. Cars on the street are not free to take, it's the same with information online.
It's your interpretation of the law. However I am intrigued as to your motivation in reporting the thread and what you hoped to gain from it rather than letting the forum moderators do their job.
@lustyd you obviously missed my #65 so I'm repeating it here to give you an opportunity to reply.
The same thing that made me read it in the first place, I'm an expert in the subject for work. As such I was interested that someone's email address was being used without consent (and had knowledge that is useful), and I was also interested when the OP decided to abuse someone else's information without consent (and I had a report button to address it).
No, the director published details with companies house as required by law to allow people to contact him. He did not consent to those personal details being posted in a forum suggesting he's somehow broken the law. OP is absolutely entitled to use those details to contact the director, but posting them in a forum holds no purpose whatsoever and does not have the consent of the individual.
No, I ignored it because you're not being constructive or trying to fix your problem, you've just turned to attack mode which is unhelpful
The whole thread. Repeatedly. Have a re-read.
Substantiate this allegation please or withdraw it.
Whilst you may or indeed not be right I think and of course I may be right or not, that the law would take a common sense view of the matter as espoused in post #67. As to the question of expert views on this and any other matter surely the appropriate thing is to air them in the thread ie say something along the lines of Mr Irish Rover I think you may be in breach of .......... ( quoting the relevant law) and maybe the forum regulations and leave it at that for the moderators to do their job, rather than take it on yourself to do it for them when there has been no personal attack on you or any other forum member or offensive posting.
I don't have a problem, as such. I've made zero allegations of illegality or impropriety against Red Ensign. I got an email from them and I was curious where they got my email address. This is the text of the email I sent to them in reply
I just reported it, the forum admins did do their job. It wasn't my data, no, but the person whose data was posted wasn't asked or informed and therefore not here to defend themselves. I'd step in to prevent a stranger getting mugged, and I stepped in here as it's the right thing to do.