I also find that such waste paper is ideal for starting a nice fire in a
Chimnea during summer evenings....Double security!
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Landau [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 February 2006 11:11
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [data-protection] BT Suspends SMS Trial
I shred everything with my name on. I live in a block of flats and the
wheelie bins are now right on the street front.
Our council now collects our material for recycling in rather flimsy
transparent orange sacks which we just put on the garden margin on the day
before the collection.
Anybody can see when I or someone else has put out papers and so I must
shred to avoid any snoopers - I don't want any "enterprising" person doing
their own data warehousing on me.
Also I have found the recycled bags spilling their contents. Even when the
material is shredded I want my private business kept private!
If you don't want others who have no business knowing about your private
life you really should shred.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Turner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] BT Suspends SMS Trial
> Whatever percentage of the population decide to shred their BT bills, it
> should be larger. Organisations who accept "utility bills" as a proof of
> ID
> will accept a phone or mobile bill as being such a bill. If you already
> shred stuff (and I do), then you should be shredding BT or other phone
> bills.
>
> Tim Turner
> Wigan Council
>
>> ----------
>> From: Tony Bowden[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Reply To: Tony Bowden
>> Sent: 07 February 2006 10:31
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [data-protection] BT Suspends SMS Trial
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:18:15AM -0000, Tim Trent wrote:
>> > BT has also changed its website to reflect the withdrawal of the "phone
>> > number only" part of the service. It now requires the account number
>> > as
>> > well. However it has not given customers any way of opting out of that
>> > (more secure) portion yet.
>>
>> Surely this misses the point quite spectacularly?
>>
>> The issue wasn't primarily security - it was the releasing of
>> information without the customer's consent or knowledge.
>>
>> Yes, they may have made it slightly harder for this to happen, but
>> reinstating the service without addressing the core issue seems be
>> the wrong response.
>>
>> I don't recall BT ever warning me to treat my account number as
>> completely
>> confidential, if anyone with it will be able to access my data. They
>> certainly don't treat it like a bank-card PIN or equivalent - it's
>> printed clearly on almost all correspondence from them, and I suspect
>> the percentage of the population who shred their phone bills and letters
>> from BT is rather small...
>>
>> Tony
>>
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