Yorkshire Water links with credit reference firm Experian to share details of late payers

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Yorkshire Water links with credit reference firm Experian to share details of late payers

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 18th February 2013 16:01.

Yorkshire Water customers who miss bill payments could find it harder to take out loans or credit cards following a deal struck between the utility...

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Re: Yorkshire Water links with credit reference firm Experian to share details of late payers

This is one thing that really pisses me off. I just cannot understand how this is allowed or legal based on the fact that you cannot choose your water supplier, it is automatic when you move into a house dependant upon the water supplier. So therefore selling/sharing our info is absurd because we have no say in it - that directly defeats everything the DPA and Human Rights stand for - cos in a way they're monopolising the industry but not allowing us a choice in whether we want to use them for them to ever share data.

If this was ANY other industry other than DVLA - then we'd have a reason to opt out of data sharing. As we don't then this must illegal...?

Bollocks to it all.