DEAR EDITOR
As part of supplying my co-operative, I must accept its terms and conditions, including its GDPR responsibilities.
Its own privacy policy explicitly states that milk test information is farmers’ data.
Yet, following a subject access request, key information relating to my milk samples was missing, including sample volume and mass. These samples are tested, the results are attributed to me, and those results are used to determine the price I receive for my milk.
What is particularly difficult to understand is that I have been told by the Data Protection Commission that milk test results, and information used to produce those results, are not personal data.
If the sample bears my name and supplier number, the results are attributed to me, and those results determine my payment, I would be interested to know why this information is considered not to be my personal data, especially as I am an individual farmer.
Surely farmers deserve clarity on what happens to the all data generated from the milk they produce, especially as milk samples are their legal property until payment is received.
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