Originally Posted by Maws22
It's never been tried yet as far as im aware yet, but im fairly sure BA have a get out clause for this. If you ask to be sent all the info about yourself that we hold then it won't be included. Something about the data being used for sensitive business purposes and that its commercially important, something such guff like that. I could of course be very very wrong, i'll check it tomorow.
Also, it's not really data, but a business algorithm. BA are probably happy to provide members with all the personal data they hold, including revenue events and flights taken, vip/cip status, etc. But if a real-time calculation mangles all that data into a single number, the figure itself isn't a part of the member records the company is keeping.
This might be a bit of a grey area, though, since the computational cost of such a real time calculation might be prohibitively high. So it's likely that even though the number is completely derivable from other data, it is still stored in a materialized form.
Good luck to anyone trying to invoke these laws
