Barclays Bank Plc
Financial Ombudsman decision DRN2175276 Not upheld
Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman
£50redress stated in the decision
Fri Aug 05deadline to accept (not the decision date)
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What this decision was about
Credit file reporting, Data and privacy
In the Ombudsman’s words
I don’t think it would be fair to order Barclays to remove its search form Mr A’s credit file.Credit file reporting
I don’t think it would be right for the Financial Ombudsman Service to make any findings on the way in which Barclays has kept or used old data about Mr A.Data and privacy
Source
This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN2175276.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.
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