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European Convention on Human Rights. Article 8-the right to respect for private and family life.
It really frightens officialdom!
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This argument fails in my estimation in that the intial entry of your data on the register does not contravene the Three Tests namely;
. It is prescribed by Law
. It is intended to acheive a legitimate objective and
. It is proportionate.
Further in pursuit of Section 6 of the Act, the local authority could not have acted differently ( by refusing to release your information ) due to primary legislation requring them to do so ( either the full or edited registers depending on the applicant and the intended purpose the information was to be used for ) on payment of the necessary fee.
Had you decided to remove yourself from the edited register by annoting your electoral registration form to that effect then you may have a means by which a complaint may succeed.
If however you did not so removee your details from the edited register, then the only chance of a complaint being upheld would be for you to prove that the local authority, and not a private company or individual, passed on the details held in the full register for purposes not permitted under the legislation.
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Representation of the People Act 2000 
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