[Get-iPlayer] Re: BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

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>From: David Cantrell

>Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2016 15:57

>> As far as I am aware there are no regional or local television or radio 
>> stations
>> which serve a single post code.

>You're right, but you are also, I think, deliberately missing the point.
>Each station serves a long list of postcodes, and you can't use anything
>else that people are expected to know, like the name of their home town,
>to reliably pick a local radio station.

I find it difficult to understand how anyone would want to catch up from a 
radio station whose name he or she did not know.  To listen live on FM he or 
she would need to know the frequency on which it transmitted, having looked 
it up by station name. If there is a demand for identifying local radio 
stations and regional television channels by post code, by all means let 
users opt into it.  Anyone who doesn't want it should be allowed to opt out, 
or rather be opted out by default.

My concern is privacy.  Did you read Vangelis's comment about his research 
into what the information will be used for?  It is very different from what 
it says on the registration page.  The BBC is required to comply with the 
Data Protection Principles.  I am waiting for the person I spoke to at the 
Information Commissioner's Office to call me back to tell me if anyone is 
doing work on this.  If not I have been told I should in the first instance 
write to the BBC's (or probably now OFCOM's) Data Protection Officer and 
give him or her 28 days to reply, and then refer it to the ICO.