Disclosure of bank details

"Jonny Skyman" wrote in message
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"Dilbert" [email protected] wrote in message
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Yes, but what you seem to be forgetting is that Sky **know** she does
not
pay the bill and yet have still disclosed someone else's bank details to
her. The fact that it is her son paying the account makes no difference
from if it had been the man in the moon! They have obligations under
the
Data Protection Act and I'm fairly sure they are on extremely dodgy
ground.
How would you like it if all your personal bank details were sent to
your
mother?


I couldn't care, knowing my bank details are useless... Everytime i write
a
cheque i give out my sor code and account number.
You can't do anything with it.

Someone could pay money *in* to your account though.

"Dilbert" [email protected] wrote in message ...
I see your point about the information being given out on cheques, but
that
is with your permission (technically). What Sky have done is given your
bank account details to a third party *without* your permission. An
earlier
reply made reference to the small print about your account details being
passed on, but that does not include your bank details, which the
respondent
doesn't seem to consider.

Was the OP just as much in the wrong to give Sky his mother's details
though? I'd personally be more worried about the credit side of things. If
the OP didn't pay his Sky bill, whose credit rating would be affected? His
or his mothers?

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:47:31 +0000 (UTC), "David Lees"
wrote:

"Jonny Skyman" wrote in message
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"Dilbert" [email protected] wrote in message
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Yes, but what you seem to be forgetting is that Sky **know** she does
not
pay the bill and yet have still disclosed someone else's bank details to
her. The fact that it is her son paying the account makes no difference
from if it had been the man in the moon! They have obligations under
the
Data Protection Act and I'm fairly sure they are on extremely dodgy
ground.
How would you like it if all your personal bank details were sent to
your
mother?


I couldn't care, knowing my bank details are useless... Everytime i write
a
cheque i give out my sor code and account number.
You can't do anything with it.

Someone could pay money *in* to your account though.


I wish someone would pay money into my bloody account!
Remove NOSPAM if replying by e-mail.

"David Lees" wrote in message
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"Jonny Skyman" wrote in message
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Someone could pay money *in* to your account though.


Yes they could but , as you may have guessed, that would not bother me at
all!

Dilbert wrote:
|| I see your point about the information being given out on cheques,
|| but that is with your permission (technically). What Sky have done
|| is given your bank account details to a third party *without* your
|| permission.

No they haven't. They've merely confirmed the details to their customer (the
OP's mother) who, as far as the Sky contract goes, was the person who told
them the bank details in the first place.

"Paul Rooney" wrote in message
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It's all gone a bit mad with various people's interpretation of data
protection. I bought my wife's phone and she bought mine. It's a
nightmare trying to sort anything out with the phone company - they
won't talk to either of us about our own phone bills! I tried to bluff
it out by talking in a squeaky voice but I couldn't keep it going and
started laughing, at which point the guy got suspicious and I had to
end the call. Best to do it all online.
Then there's the RAC who wouldn't let us renew our subscription
because I was the member but the DD was my wife's. Their only
suggestion was that we take out joint membership - so we went to
another breakdown insurance company and saved about £50 into the
bargain.

These security protections are great aren't they.

I rang a telephone company to cancel something or other (a lost mobile I
believe). I knew the username of who had set it up, and the password they
used to set it up with. The person who had set it up was a woman, whereupon
the operator hearing my manly voice said "I'm sorry you'll have to get Liz
(for twas her name) to call to do this". Unfortunatley Liz had left the
company some months earlier. However, rather than tell them this, I simply
put them on hold, explained the situation to a female colleague, who then
answered the phone claiming she was Liz, and everything was hunky-dory. They
cancelled the phone without question.

It seemed to me the operator simply couldn't be bothered to push a few
buttons on this one, and was content to fob me off so that she didn't have
to push those buttons.

I'll take an agile mind over a phone-monkey anyday.