Comments on: Clarkson stung after bank prank

By: Zac

Zac — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:22:25 +0000

It just goes to show how easy it is to wreck someones life by sharing your information. The government knows who stole the information, they just arent saying. Makin up ideas that they were stolen is grounds for them doing even deeper searches into our private lives.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:21:35 +0000

Rick: “back accoun number, sort code , name and address are in the public domain. Every one you give a cheque to has that.”

Whoever it was that told you this is wrong!
Giving someone a cheque with those details on it is not the same as placing it in the public domain! The details are given as part of a transaction between two parties for the specific purpose of enabling a payment to take place.

These might not be considered as “personal” data as such but they are *private*.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:30:42 +0000

Ok Dave, I agree that he was wrong in what he said but not in what he did, or at least, shouldn’t have been.

I entirely agree about the NIR – this clearly demonstrates that not everyone is competent, not least the banks.

By: Dave Page

Dave Page — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:14:06 +0000

Rick:

Clarkson was wrong. He said there was no risk to revealing his bank details in the Sun. There was a risk. Perhaps there should not have been, but there was.

Similarly, we cannot have a National Identity Register which relies on everybody dealing with it being competent and honest. Perhaps we should be able to have such a thing in theory, but it’s never going to happen in practice, particularly not on the vast scale of the NIR.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:13:47 +0000

But Clarkson was RIGHT (though I don’t think I would have done what he did). He didn’t reveal any personal data – back accoun number, sort code , name and address are in the public domain. Every one you give a cheque to has that.

We can’t let the banks get away with the sloppy procedures which caused this to happen, even if he does. The BBC article doesn’t say so, but the Daily Mail one does – the fault was an online direct debit at the charity web site and the bank didn’t write to the account holder like they are supposed to, to confirm that they should go ahead.

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