When bailiffs take pictures of your belongings without taking control of them, it usually means they intend to return later and burgle your home, knowing the police place bailiffs in a class above the law.
You must report a bailiff taking pictures of your belongings immediately.
Enforcement regulations do not provide for bailiffs to take photographs of peoples belongings, documents or vehicles.
You have a right to give notice to the data controller for the bailiff company to destroy the photographs taken, and tell you in writing they have done so.[1][2]
If the data controller does not comply with your notice, then you have a right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO),[3][4] and you may recover material and non-material damages.[5][6]
Template Notice to Erase[1]
Send the Notice to the bailiff company and get a certificate of posting from the post office.
Give a copy of the Notice to the bailiff company by email and make a screenshot of the sent email capturing the time you gave it.
Send a copy of the Notice by text message to the bailiff to his mobile and make a screenshot of the sent text message to record the time you gave it.
Keep all screenshots for your file.
[1] Section 47 of the Data Protection Act 2018
[2] Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
[3] Section 94 of the Data Protection Act 2018
[4] Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulations
[5] Article 82 of the General Data Protection Regulations
[6] Section 168 of the Data Protection Act 2018
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