Agenda item

General Data Protection Regulations 2018

City Solicitor to be heard.

Minutes:

The City Solicitor was heard in respect of the new General Data Protection Regulations 2018, which would impose a more stringent Data Protection Code in respect of ‘implied consent’.  A Member suggested that, in the case of ‘opt-out’ membership of the Barbican’s House Groups; when a resident moved into a block he/she was automatically deemed to be a member of that House Group but at no point in the process identified by name, address or otherwise.  This being the case, the Information Commission would not have jurisdiction as no records were being held.

 

Members were reminded that the Comptroller and City Solicitor was only able to advise Members of the City of London Corporation and not the House Groups on the Barbican Estate.  The Town Clerk reminded Members that the House Groups had been given a year’s amnesty in this year’s Recognised Tenant Association (RTA) Audit, in order to consider the implications of the new legislation and make any necessary administrative adjustments.  All enquiries from House Group Chairmen and Secretaries had been, and would continue to be, directed towards the Information Commissioner’s website.