Unauthorised photography within my home and sharing of the photographs

[Changerofthename1]

I found out that a contractor has taken photographs of the inside of my home that I did not authorise, one of them has got my child in the corner I’m fucking furious about. Obviously it’s gone from one employees phone to another and then it’s been forwarded onto who is thinks is me but actually I’m using an email address that isn’t the one that he would have on my contract if that makes sense so I think he’s on thin ice with that.

This can’t be legal surely ?

So is the OP saying that out of the millions of email addresses in the world the contractors chanced upon using a random one that happened to be hers 🤔?!

Sooo are you a hoarder or what?

Sounds to me like op has done the legal equivalent of getting a headache, going on Google and diagnosing themselves with something fatal. Honestly seriously you sound very wound up and it'd be better for everyone if you stepped away from it. If you like, email the company and demand they delete all copies of the photo. They haven't published it anywhere, they've used it to prove why they couldn't do the work. Chill out.

And that was precisely the point I was making that actually the bollocks about paparazzi etc doesn’t apply inside somebody’s home.

Oh OP, you’ve had a bad day but hopefully you’ll have calmed down a bit tomorrow.

It’s not unreasonable for a contractor (that you invited round) to photograph the area of work he or she is meant to be dealing with. They probably didn’t even realised your kid was sitting there as their focus was on the job in hand. Which they couldn’t do because, presumably, you didn’t make sure it was ready to be done.

You are completely focusing on the wrong thing

the best form of defense is attack . I think she’s done something Wrong, Ie not empty Room or something and she’s furious they have evidence.

But the email address IS hers
They sent the photo to her

You are not a data controller by virtue of taking a photo. You are either a data controller/processor or not before you take a photo.

If you are one, then you must comply with GDPR. There are lots of legitimate reasons for data collection, and you don't need consent for all of them.

Focus on the money. Not the photo.

I think she means she set up the contract with the company using one email address (let's say her personal email). Then future communication to the company have been sent from a different email address of hers (work email perhaps) so this is where they sent the photo too after the visit. I think this is ine of the things she is taking exception to - its not the email address on the contract so they don't know for sure that they are sending a photo of the inside of her house to her. I'm not saying this would bother me but this is my interpretation of it.

You are possibly right but the fact is that they DID send the email to her email address.

So how do they have another address, I don’t know but I don’t think the issue is the kid, I think the issue is the state of the room. They have evidence they could not do the work.

This is one story I'd love to hear the other side of.

I think the OP is on a windup. No one is THIS uptight, surely?! 🤣

Oh yes I know, just trying to explain what I think she means!

I'm assuming,as an example, it went
"Sorry we can't install the flooring as the hall dresser was supposed to have been removed as were the 2 sofas in the living room. It's impossible to lay the compound with furniture in situ" then photo taken to show boss and phone call made .... all sounds a bit barmy though. I still don't see how a clear explanation of how it all came about will be outing, you could be anyone from anywhere.

How do you know they sent the picture to your wrong email address?

It sounds like you are just annoyed that the contractors have taken pictures as proof that the contractors couldn't carry out the job because you didn't clear the room or whatever.

If they hadn't taken pictures, you'd probably have denied not doing whatever it is you were supposed to, so you could claim £30 wasted time compensation from the HA.

Is your DC's face even in the picture, or is it just some generic side/back of the head/could be any DC snuck into the shot?

It sounds like your angry about the wrong thing.

They sussed you were bonkers straight away and rightfully covered their own backs.

Absolutely desperate to know what the work is that’s too outing to say. Can’t be flooring, we’ve all got floors. Is it interiors photography?

I think a lot of us would.

They had a legitimate basis for processing your child's personal data as they were incidental to the photograph they took of the reason they couldn't complete the work.

What a wired post - they didn’t photograph a secret torture room with a mattress hidden behind a mirror did they?? Definitely a post about that earlier 😂🤣

OP it would really help if we knew what they were contracted to do.

I've just realised you took my post joking about sea serpents specifically addressed to the OP, combined it with my separate post on a separate page to you, and decided both were to you and that I was suggesting you were something I never said.

So I wasn't wondering before but now I am, are you the OP? Because it would only make sense to respond this way if you are. But maybe you are just not in the habit of making sense. Jury's out.

Also MN don't "vouch" for people, they just make it clear you're not a PBP.