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From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Hotel keeping card details...
> In message <002b01c6f3a4$c6b33fe0$71e59a51@Nick>, at 18:34:05 on Thu, 19
> Oct 2006, Nick Landau <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>I recall about 15 years ago or more there had been something in the paper
>>about the carbons used with the old manual machines and how they could
>>possibly be used to collect information about cards.
>
> That "information" was the bare essentials embossed on the front: Number,
> name, expiry date etc
Why do you think I tried asking for the carbon. If you think I didn't
know... Why the information in quotes - was it the tone of voice in which I
was writing.
In fact, more recently I recall a TV programme about a fellow in Luton who
was apprehended by the Police looking into credit card with a bootfull of
amongst other things carbons which he had presumably gathered from dustbins.
Nick Landau
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