Petition Amend the Data Protection Act to include home addresses as personal information.

The Information Commission's Office is currently powerless to compel direct marketing companies to remove personal addresses from company databases.

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This follows an unrelenting marketing campaign by a company sending unsolicited mail addressed to The Householder and their refusal to remove my address from their database.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

28 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 28 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 2 May 2016
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