IN 2008 Guernsey already had data protection rules in place to protect information that related to individuals, which were based on the EU Data Protection Directive. However, the Directive was adopted in 1995, at a time when the world wide web was still relatively new, and it did not anticipate the technological progress and globalisation that changed how information is collected, stored and used.
The company says it did not find any evidence that any personal information was misused.
LET’S start from a different place. Let’s talk about your attitude to property and whether you (as most people would) regard it as a long-term investment, as opposed to something merely to live in? And let’s try to think back to 2008 and what your thoughts would have been from your perspective as a Guernsey resident. I say this because I have no doubt that if you were on the Guernsey property market ladder in the run-up to 2008, you’d have been a very happy ‘investor’. It was virtually a one-way bet with prices rising year after year and, regardless of whether you were a long-term or a short-term ‘investor’, life was good. So, if I’d offered you a ‘AAA-rated’ investment based on property (albeit in the US) with a high-risk/high-reward kicker on the side, what could possibly have gone wrong?
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