BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

[RS]

>From: Vangelis forthnet Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 00:13

>On Thu Sep 29 17:19:37 BST 2016, RS wrote:

>> 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.

>First of all, apologies for resurrecting this stale thread,
>which, strictly speaking, isn't actually GiP related;
>move on if offended by its OT nature...

> . . .

>> 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.

> Hello Richard; has any of the above ever been pursued?

My apologies for the long delay in replying to this.  I kept putting it off 
because I was going to check first of all on the Information Commissioner's 
website,
www.ico.org.uk
and then with the ICO itself, what progress there had been.  I still have 
not done that.

I have a note that the person I spoke to did call me back the following day. 
It seems the ICO had already decided there were clear privacy issues, and 
had people working on it.  It had written to the BBC at the end of August 
and a response was due in October.  As the ICO was already working on it, 
there did not seem to be any point in making my own complaint.