[Talk-GB] FHRS and businesses run from home

[Dave F]

On 21/11/2016 13:18, David Woolley wrote:
> On 21/11/16 12:58, Dave F wrote:
>> The FHRS database listing a business at a domestic address is
>> verification IMO.
>
> It's also personal data.  I actually thought that FHRS itself 
> suppressed some of this, but if you include it, it becomes subject to 
> the Data Protection Act, which put legal constraints on the owners of 
> OSM to manage it properly.

Please clarify exactly what data you believe to be personal? As it 
contains no data on "identifiable living people", could you provide 
evidence that it falls under the DPA?

>
> Whilst a lot of home office businesses want to be on OSM, because it 
> is a way of advertising, I think some of the FHRS registrations would 
> not want that sort of publicity.

So you're suggesting the FSA should take down it own website which 
geo-locates all FHRS entries?

DaveF