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LoneStarState

I've always wondered whether a well crafted complaint to the ICO after a data erasure request is refused by an operator is an avenue. 

This would be after debt collector nonsense has been and gone and the operator has done nothing for say a year and maybe the appellant has invited the operator multiple times to initiate court proceedings and fully denied the debt.  

I don't see how it is reasonable to hold onto data that over time will exponentially increase in the risk of being incorrect when many operators have no intent to deal with it expeditiously and some have zero intent of ever initiating a court claim. 

It's mad to have such an arbitrary retention period of data linked solely to the limitation period and in some cases operators hold on to it for longer.