On 10 January 2011 16:30, Peter Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otcbn@callnetuk.com">otcbn@callnetuk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ian Batten wrote on 10-01-11 16:15:<div class="im"><br>
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On 10 Jan 11, at 1318, Roland Perry wrote:<br>
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I refused to give my NI number to an estate agent recently<br>
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Did you manage to get them to tell you why they wanted it?<br>
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The reply would almost certainly have been, "It's because of the Data Protection Act, sir."<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>Something to do with their Money Laundering Reporting regime, perhaps - if you have a job you have a legitimate source of income?<br>
<br>Not saying that it is reasonable, just that it is potentially explicable.<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Pemble<br><br><br>