By @edent · CyberSecurity gdpr o2 privacy security · 8 comments · 250 words · read ~178 times.
It's always fun keeping your network inspector tab open. While looking around the O2 UK website, I found this page all about eSIMs. For some reason, it wants to know the user's phone number. I put in a random number, and it refused to let me in. Putting in a genuine O2 number let me […]
Continue reading →By @edent · gdpr privacy · 6 comments · 700 words · read ~235 times.
Privacy is a funny concept, isn't it? Very few people want the whole world to know what medical complaints they have. But most hospitals are open-access buildings, where the waiting rooms have large monitors to tell patients that their doctor is running late. A few years ago I was sat in the proctology waiting room. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · CyberSecurity gdpr · 7 comments · 900 words · read ~361 times.
I used to work in a call centre for a Very Big Company. Every week, without exception, we'd get a bunch of new starters to train. And every week, without exception, a newbie would be fired after looking up a famous person's data. This was in the days before GDPR. There was a lot less […]
Continue reading →By @edent · gdpr nhs · 11 comments · 300 words · read ~251 times.
I returned home from holiday to a pile of letters. Mostly junk, a few Christmas cards, and something from the NHS. This is what the envelope looked like: As it happens, I'm not particularly concerned about who knows I had a fairly normal medical procedure. I've blogged a bit about it and Tweeted about the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · gdpr name unicode · 30 comments · 400 words · read ~38,361 times.
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little […]
Continue reading →By @edent · dns gdpr HowTo spam virgin · 9 comments · 900 words · read ~1,806 times.
tl;dr you have to keep complaining to Virgin for several months and then take them to the Communication & Internet Services Adjudication Scheme then complain to their Data Protection team by contacting them on LinkedIn. Background Virgin have a spammy DNS hijacking service. If you accidentally misspell a domain - for example example.coom - Virgin […]
Continue reading →By @edent · gdpr · 2 comments · 500 words · read ~390 times.
Back in 2011, I sold all of my shares in my former employer and used the money to buy solar panels. I closed my account at the same time. Or so I thought Fast-forward 9 years, and I was surprised to receive an unwanted email from the corporate shareholding service. It was some nonsense about […]
Continue reading →By @edent · cloudflare data gdpr · 11 comments · 600 words · read ~10,091 times.
It has been over a year since I cancelled my Cloudflare account. They keep emailing me and haven't taken me off their marketing lists despite repeated requests. Their CTO told me he would investigate, but nothing changed. Their Data Protection Office hasn't respond to my requests. Cloudflare do not appear to respect the GDPR. I've […]
Continue reading →By @edent · email gdpr privacy security · 3 comments · 400 words · read ~165 times.
Every so often, I get a glimpse into the thought processes of someone who has a very different view of the world to me. I don't deal with people's personal information often. So I was surprised to receive an email with a multi-megabyte spreadsheet called "Pay and Bonuses 2020". The email contained this doozy of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · cloudflare data gdpr · 1 comment · 450 words · read ~294 times.
I'm increasingly concerned with the power that CDNs wield - and CloudFlare in particular. So I decided to delete my CloudFlare account. While they claim to have removed my account, they still seem to count me as an active customer. I wonder how many people bought shares in their IPO based on inaccurate customer numbers? […]
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