bbc3 now

[legend_mark5]

Your identity for sale.
Security flaws on facebook , that people can get your info from.


Lookout , if you use the applications on facebook , games etc , you agreee that they can see all your info .

Beware.

Switch over now...........................

[B00]

And how can a 2 year old kid be on a phone companys database and receive 4 sim cards ?

Strange innit

Think I know how this can be possible- many freebies, such as phone sim cards that you send off for usually ask for a "friend's" email address so that they can be part of the deal if they want. It's not unheard of to use fake names and addresses, heck i'vw even used Mini Boo's name and her *ahem* email adress myself.

[Lakitu]

I don't give a fig what Facebook does, I have no information on there that would be of interest to them.

The programme you are watching is misleading the viewer. When you call Sky to subscribe to their services, the ball is rolling and you are give a 14 day cooling off period, in which time the contract will be sent to you. Sky assume, correctly, that most people are NOT going to read said contract.

Just for your own peace of mind, I have dug out my very own Sky contract and this is what it says

Information held by the Sky group about you may also be shared with other companies outside the group, including for sales, marketing and market research purposes, unless you indicate that you wish to be excluded from such uses by contacting us on 08702 40 40 40

I am the type of peron daft enough to read the contract given to me and I am the type of person daft enough to work in contracts and have been studying the profession for a couple of years now and I know they are legally obliged to tell you they can sell your details, that anyone can opt out and that they can put it in small print if they wish.

[rabbitygirl]

Did you know, and I'm pretty sure it's still the case, that if Sky ring you and you agree to become a customer they DO NOT send you a copy of their terms and conditions. I cancelled a week before my Sky installation 2 years ago because it wasn't policy to let you see them, but only have them read out to you on the phone - seriously.

I've been with them exactly a year and I rang them. Before that if they rang me I asked if the terms were available only if I approached them. They would usually laugh and say I was wrong. When they checked they were surprised to find it was indeed true.

[Lakitu]

Leg, why keep urging us to watch the program? Why are you willing to believe everything you watch in an instant? It would be a pretty boring show if they said "Well, viewers, Sky can sell your details, and they try to hide that fact in their small print, but you can opt out, cheerio for now"

[legend_mark5]

Dak thats what i saiid

Its a premium rate number

and did you call and opt out?
And if you signed up over the phone then youre already signed up.

[Lakitu]

Yes, I opted out. Every Sky number is a premium rate number, whether you're opting out of their selling your information of you have a bad signal. They're not singleing a person out because they're opting out of their market research.

I know you're automatically a customer over the phone, which is why there's a 14 day cooling off period.....

[legend_mark5]

Wewll no need to watch it , but if youre not , then you cant really give an opinion on it can you ?
Exactly why i suggest watching it , and decide if its right or not?


Its about more than sky, its showing you how they can use that info from online sites to apply for credit cards.Which they did in a government ministers name.

But hey if youre not interested why post here on the thread then ?

Seems strange .



Why not opt out ? : 0)

[Lakitu]

PMSL!

I love how you get uppioty when someone puts their point across. I don't need to watch the show to know what my rights as a consumer is, but thanks anyway.

Night night :o)

[legend_mark5]

Sorryyou didnt realise how much it was shared and what tehy can do with it.


Nite nite .

Watch your bank account folks : 0 )

[legend_mark5]

As for uppity you only answered on sky , nothing about a 2 year old on a database?


Not so easy i gues s?


lol



PMSL

Back at ya xx

[B00]

Errr hello???

I answered the two year old on a data base point. Maybe Lak had the good grace to read it, understand it, figured it made sense and therefore felt it didn't need addressing again?

Just a theory!

[legend_mark5]

Sory boo.
Sadly the boys dad was an executive in the PANDA ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE COMPANY.

I t was down to harvesting details and merely a mistake in the boys age.

Strange of orange to do that tho.


Apparently of all the information and data shared 10% of it is wrong.
The case of the guy whos credit card details were stolen and an indonesian paedophile tried to use it was alarming.A 6 months investigation until police decided he wasnt involved.

Now thats scary innit?

[legend_mark5]

I doubt it boo , she seems in a bit of a tizzy tonight.


Hey way of the world innit ?

[mrs.chappie]

I know someone who's orange. The fake bake went wrong and she's very upset.

[legend_mark5]

Well chapps what can i say eh ?



Better orange than getting your panties in a twist innit ??


lol : 0)

[Barmaid]

I haven't seen the programme, but I have over the years become really really annoyed with companies chucking my personal data round. So I've ditched the credit cards, more or less ditched the chip and pin, ditched the loyalty cards, only use cash (wherever possible) and I rarely buy online. I always "opt out" of receiving information from anyone. If someone calls ME and asks me to go through their security check, I tell them to bog off. If I need to talk to anyone I will phone them, otherwise they can write to me and I'll deal with it (which normally means it gets shredded). I am thoroughly hacked off with companies using my personal data to "improve their service" (my ar$e). AND when 2011 comes I am going to bl00dy well object to the Census too seeing as the Civil Service is singularly incapable of looking after the personal privacy of the nation. Sorry, rant over.