Ex housemate at Uni and privacy question

anna_1977

Hi
I don't really know if
1) this is the correct place to post or
2)anyone can answer.

Brief background & v condensed :
My 20 year old DD is at Uni (2nd yr) - when she moved into her house in September it was 4 girls in a 5 bed house. the landlady advised there was an international masters student moving in. Few weeks later a 32 yr old male moves in. Long story short, nothing but problems with him being inappropriate toward my DD. She sough advice from police and filed a report as she felt v unsafe in the house - other housemates confirmed to landlady & police that he had some sort of infatuation with her. The landlady did nothing.

Eventually after 6 months and her threatening to leave a number of times the landlady moved said man into her house. She has confirmed that she also feels uneasy with him in the house.

Today my daughter receives an email from HIS uni saying that he wants to set up mediation with all the housemates to discuss the issues. She has since finished for the year and moved home so she has responded to say NO.

However, when she called them to explain situation she asked how they got her personal email address. Turns out the landlady gave it to the man - can she do this (obviously she has but...)

DD now v worried that she's going to start getting emails from him

Can anyone advise if she has comeback on the landlady? I'm v aware she's not received her £420 deposit back yet so don't want the boat rocked.

Thanks for any advice on this one

Ms_Chocaholic

The landlady may have given the email address to the man but he has not contacted your DD direct, only the Uni have. I would send a firm but polite email back to the University stating what has gone on and you wish for no further contact.

elsien

If she starts getting repeated unwanted contact from him then she should go to the police and make a complaint about harrassment.

It was never the landlady's role to police the situation with regards to the tenant - if he had a valid tenancy then ending it would need to be done correctly according to what the agreement actually said. If there were ongoing issues in the meantime, that should have been raised again with the police.

anna_1977

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

The landlady may have given the email address to the man but he has not contacted your DD direct, only the Uni have. I would send a firm but polite email back to the University stating what has gone on and you wish for no further contact.

thanks, I will get her to email the uni as suggested. If he contacts her she can do the same

KateBob

GDPR could be your friend here.


New GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) came into force on 25th May 2018 which whilst not significantly different to the previous rule have much stricter penalties for breaches.


Your DD's landlady is running a business and will therefore need to be aware that a breach like your daughter has had happen could result in fines of 2% of turnover, especially likely if the regulator considers the breach deliberate.


Use this as a large stick to get your daughters deposit back and to remind her landlady of the rules.

skimper

Kate/bob beat me to it.

Unless your daughter has given the landlady permission to pass on her personal details (email) to a 3rd party (uni) then the landlady is in breech of the new GDPR rules. I would politely remind the landlady of this and ask for her deposit back.

anna_1977

Thanks Skimper and Kate/Bob - i was thinking there must be some privacy regulation to stop distributing emails especially when she knows the history (all documented on emails to her).

Just keeping everything crossed he doesn't email DD directly. Deposit due back 1 July so will use this if there's a problem

Archergirl

If he does I expect there is a way to block his emails I am not sure how but someone will know.

Marvel1

I wud suspect most providers r able 2 bloc email addresses, mayb daughter can do this.

macman

As above, just use Block Sender.
Was the deposit not protected?

System

Say "no" to mediation and quote the harrassment laws...only have to try and contact her without permission twice to be considered harrassment.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassment_in_the_United_Kingdom