A friend has asked me if there is anything they can do regarding their former employer still having them listed as an employee on the former employers website. It was a start up so just them as the only employee and the employer listed.
Wondering if they could or should ask to be removed as it is an under preforming company with very unhappy clients and they no longer wish to be affiliated with it, especially as things didn't end on great terms anyway.
Other areas of the website have been updated since they left but not the staff page
Data Protection specialists I’m sure will be along with commentary, but I’d think that your friend can complain to this company that they are in serious breach of the regulations by having failed to delete your friend’s personal data once they’ve ceased to be an employee and indeed still to be ‘processing’ / publishing it when they’ve no longer any legitimate reason for doing so. And that if they don’t immediately take action to correct this, they’ll be complained-about to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Data Protection specialists I’m sure will be along with commentary, but I’d think that your friend can complain to this company that they are in serious breach of the regulations by having failed to delete your friend’s personal data once they’ve ceased to be an employee and indeed still to be ‘processing’ / publishing it when they’ve no longer any legitimate reason for doing so. And that if they don’t immediately take action to correct this, they’ll be complained-about to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
