Is this a breech of my Data?

[patsy999]

My carer got a lift to mine from a male friend of hers, last night to do her call.
So she had to give him my address.
Feel a bit uneasy now, about some random male knowing where i live.

What are you on about? Of course this isn't a breach of your data. Your carer's friend doesn't know who you are or have an information to associate with your address. It's no different from your carer getting a taxi to your house.

Any man who ever makes any kind of delivery to your home is also a 'random male' who knows where you live. As is any passing man who happens to see you entering or leaving your home. What, exactly, are you worried about?

Your carer is entitled to get a lift to your house. It woud only be a data breach if the carer told him your name and/or any other personal/medical details.

Oh, give over. You’re scared because someone knows that your house has a person living in it? Did you think everyone thought your house was empty? He doesn’t know your name or anything about you. He just knows there is a house in your location with someone living in it. Maybe time to see a therapist for your anxiety.

How else would he know where to take her?
What an odd concern.

Have you never taken a taxi? Do you have a postman? Ever order anything for delivery? Shopping online, takeaways? Have work done by a tradesman?

YABU

Every random who passes your house when you enter/exit knows where you live.

Unless she's given him your name, there's absolutely no breech.

Absolutely this. Honestly OP unless there is something you aren't telling us you are massively overthinking.

I agree that there has been no data breech, but in the situations given here, the OP is choosing to give people her address.

She has to give her carer her address if she wants the carer to come... she can't dictate how they arrive.

Just like the person you give your address to at the take away will then give that to a random delivery driver to deliver your food

Seriously sometimes this site makes me question people, do people Seriously live like this. Op did you want your carer coming or not? What was the alternative she walk yo yours or cancel?

Technically a organisation isn’t allowed to give out client addresses.

The OP is the client.

So it could be seen as a data breach but the carer would have had to have named her too.

Addresses alone isn’t personal enough for a claim

I work with confidential data, yes that's a breach. If you report, then the onus would be on her to prove he didn't know your actual address, which I'm sure she could easily do, but it would flag the behaviour.

And the reason the address alone is enough is because you may be considered a vulnerable person.

Really struggling to believe this one but taking it at face value....

No wonder can't recruit or retain staff in the care sector.

The various data protection laws all have exemptions to enable parties to fulfil contractual and statutory obligations. The carer having to give an address to a driver to get to a client would be one such example. However that being said, there is no reason that driver needs to know anything about the person the address they are going to.

Also "Address" is rather vague - just enough to trigger and AIBU dimfest. For all we know it may have been just the road the OP lives in. Or a postcode. My postcode covers 49 properties.

Really struggling to believe this one but taking it at face value....

It's a golden rule of MN that you do.

Surely no more than if she gave a taxi driver your address

She could have maybe teleported to you so no one would need to know your address, or perhaps have blindfolded him so he didn't know where he was going!!

*without legitimate reason

The organisation needs to give addresses out to allow staff to get there. If staff need a lift then giving the address would be legitimate reason. But, as you say, she shouldn't give any other information beyond that.

Just to say - I was a carer visiting houses for a while and we were told to share with our partner what house we would be at and when so that if anything happened to us, our next of kin or somebody would know where we had been. (we visited alone and arranged our schedule outside of the organisation and worked with vulnerable families)

As others have said, how is she ever meant to get a taxi or a lift to your house if she can't say where she's going? is the postman breaching your data when he delivers a letter with your address on it to you? Are your neighbours breaching data when viewing the carer come round with their own eyes? Are the pharmacy breaching data when you have to shout out your address in the pharmacy? No, don't be daft.

Just to say - I was a carer visiting houses for a while and we were told to share with our partner what house we would be at and when so that if anything happened to us, our next of kin or somebody would know where we had been. (we visited alone and arranged our schedule outside of the organisation and worked with vulnerable families)

Another legitimate use of personal data (which I hadn't thought of).