Enforcement regulations do not include bailiffs taking photographs of other peoples documents, bank statements, property or car, and should be reported to the police.
It means the bailiff may intend passing evidence of valuables and your bank account details to criminals, and the photographs should be seized to prevent them from being used in a crime.
If you are burgled, or your bank accounts are compromised, you must tell your bank.
Change passwords and secure valuables, then give statutory notice to the bailiff and his agency to destroy the photographs containing your personal data.[1][2]
If the data controller does not confirm in writing they have complied with your notice to erase, then you have a right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office,[3][4] and you may claim material and non-material damages.[5][6]
Template Statutory Notice.[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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