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Steve Hill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.nexusuk.org/tags/cat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cat</span></a> has a microchip registered with <a href="https://mastodon.nexusuk.org/tags/Identibase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Identibase</span></a>. After moving home I tried to update my address on Identibase, but they said that I needed to pay an annual subscription fee to do so...</p><p>My address is my personal data, and therefore comes under the <a href="https://mastodon.nexusuk.org/tags/UKGDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKGDPR</span></a>, so I submitted a Article 16 "right to rectification" request asking them to update the out of date personal data. Per Article 12(5) they have to do this for free.</p><p>And it worked! Identibase have updated my address for free.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nexusuk.org/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a></p>