On 12/18/19 12:32 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
On 12/18/19 7:48 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:
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I would hope, for billing and service inquiries,
they would have all the personal information I provided to
them. I wouldn't give my SIN to a phone provider tho. I don't
ever remember giving it out to get a landline or cable service
and the agents I use now never have asked me for a SIN in
order start services.
Really??
Telus runs a business providing practice management services to
medical professionals including managing health data.
Would you like your phone provider to have access to all your
personal data?
That could include your medical records?
I can just hear the conversation:
"Yes sir. To verify your identity could you tell us the results from
your last prostate exam?"
Me being who I am, if an employee of a telecommunications provider asked me that in order for me to buy into a service contract, I might just turn around and drop my pants in the office and say check for yourself.
You may not have have provided your SIN as part of a credit
application 30 years ago and in that case you are a much wiser
person than I
Well I think I did provide my SIN to my Bank when I first applied for an account and since I'm not one to abuse credit or take on excessive debt, I get along without having to disclose much more than the minimum necessary
The carrier should have an obligation of
care with my information.
But the only obligation that the
carrier has is to maximize the
shareholder value.
Cybercare of personal information
starts with the individual, unfortunately it's all
downhill from there.
That is true and this was something like 30 years ago I
was much more naive then.
The environment has changed in the intervening time.
When I was a child access to personal information was
controlled by physical access to paper and security was
a matter of locks and keys.
The rules around information protection are woefully
inadequate in today's hyper connected environment.
For example I later this morning will need to start
looking at what of my information LifeLabs has leaked.
As you say
times have changed. I only recently found out, in the recent
past, that they don't even issue replacement SIN cards
anymore.
That's an interesting tidbit.
Yea I lost my original card, had one replacement which was held together with scotch tape for ten out of 30 years and it finally fell apart.
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