I went online today to download my credit card statement. Turns out before I could get it the company wanted a whole load of information. The wizard for collecting the info started by saying it was necessary.
So just to get my statement, as I've done for years now, it is all of a sudden necessary to give them loads of job, income etc info. I tried to bypass it all by selecting "Other". Even then it basically asks you the same information.
How does this story end? I'm getting my bill by mail now. So they clearly don't need that information to do business with me.
BTW, this is the same company that tried to sell me an identity theft protection service earlier this week. They want to sell me this service on the one hand, and on the other hand they'd happily increase the size of the attack surface I present.
I try hard to keep my information in as few hands as possible. I only use the credit card for the occasional online purchase. I prefer cash for most purchases at stores, so I try to avoid even using a bank card. All databases are hackable, so I try to keep things out of databases. Our wonderful Canadian government (through Statistics Canada) recently asked banks for the full banking records of 500,000 people. The bad publicity put an end to this for now.
I know I can't keep everything out of databases, but I make the effort.
How much do you try to keep data private? Or do you even worry about it at all?
So just to get my statement, as I've done for years now, it is all of a sudden necessary to give them loads of job, income etc info. I tried to bypass it all by selecting "Other". Even then it basically asks you the same information.
How does this story end? I'm getting my bill by mail now. So they clearly don't need that information to do business with me.
BTW, this is the same company that tried to sell me an identity theft protection service earlier this week. They want to sell me this service on the one hand, and on the other hand they'd happily increase the size of the attack surface I present.
I try hard to keep my information in as few hands as possible. I only use the credit card for the occasional online purchase. I prefer cash for most purchases at stores, so I try to avoid even using a bank card. All databases are hackable, so I try to keep things out of databases. Our wonderful Canadian government (through Statistics Canada) recently asked banks for the full banking records of 500,000 people. The bad publicity put an end to this for now.
I know I can't keep everything out of databases, but I make the effort.
How much do you try to keep data private? Or do you even worry about it at all?