Private companies and your photo...

[drivin_me_nuts]

Not wure where to place this post, but here seems as good a place as any.

I occasionally go to company sites where I will have a badge with my mugshot on it.

At the last one I asked for my photo be be deleted at the end of the last day of my visit. They seemed somewhat reluctant to do so, but it seems reasonable to me that as I am no longer there, there is no need to record my image.

Can a company keep your details without your permission and if so, for how long?

Cheers,

DMN

[JustinP1]

It depends.

When were you looking to rob the place?

[Snowboy]

There should have been a document for you to read when the took your photo that explained their policy of keeping photos or not.

Normally, photos are kept for a few years just in case they find you did something haughty while onsite and need to identify you.
Sometimes more sometimes less - it depends in the business.

[CoolHands]

Snowboy said:

just in case they find you did something haughty

well he is a PHer so that's a given

[Andehh]

I don't see a reason to care really? I doubt it is an embarrassing/risky/interesting photo of you, and compared to the CCTV cameras & Big Brother status modern society is turning into it seems relatively trivial?