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[Jimmy-T]

@JimmyT said:

Just having access to the email addresses of all the owners – something privacy laws don’t allow the rest of us – is a huge advantage for a chairman or secretary who wants to silence or undermine their critics.

I’m curious about this.

I’m an OC chair and have personally been given email addresses by most of my building’s owners/residents/agents.

I sometimes give them out, in email correspondence, but only on strata matters that affect that owner/resident/agent.  I can’t see anything in privacy laws that says I can’t.   But I don’t think I’m required to give them out when they have been personally given to me.

And I can’t see anything in privacy laws that prevents any owner from getting a copy of the strata register that may or may not have email addresses.

It’s a curious area.  And it’s often stated that email address can’t be given out due to privacy legislation.  I’m not sure that’s correct.

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