Too much information???

LittleVoice

What if you had been a foundling and fostered but never adopted? No maiden name of mother in that case.

I would want to know where they are putting the name, how it's supposed to help them with a check.

lynzpower

I spoke to acas, they siad I can see why you dont want to give it but if you dont they can refuse you the job and theres no law against it!

Woby_Tide

they asked for mothers maiden name and lots of similar things when I applied here years ago. The addresses for the last 5 years sounds like a 'credit check' of sorts, if you're handling payments could well be to check financial probity. The company uses our mothers maiden name as teh final security check if we ever need ID's resetting or personal info relating to us being discussed over the phone

lynzpower

Woby_Tide wrote: »

they asked for mothers maiden name and lots of similar things when I applied here years ago. The addresses for the last 5 years sounds like a 'credit check' of sorts, if you're handling payments could well be to check financial probity. The company uses our mothers maiden name as teh final security check if we ever need ID's resetting or personal info relating to us being discussed over the phone

Woby, thanks for this.

Im fine for them having my previous addresses- but its this mothers maiden name issue that bothers me, do you mean if you have an IT problem and have an IT contractor - they too would get to know your mothers maiden name? ?

Savvy_Sue

Woby_Tide wrote: »

they asked for mothers maiden name and lots of similar things when I applied here years ago. The addresses for the last 5 years sounds like a 'credit check' of sorts, if you're handling payments could well be to check financial probity. The company uses our mothers maiden name as teh final security check if we ever need ID's resetting or personal info relating to us being discussed over the phone

so if you use a fictional one, make sure you remember what it was! :rotfl:

lynzpower

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

so if you use a fictional one, make sure you remember what it was! :rotfl:

would this be reason to be sacked tho if i lied about this do you thnk?

lynzpower

Quite

Well I just spoke to the bank and they said that if anyone rinsed the account, then they would refund any loss.

Interesting as the security questions ard
"whats your memorable name " ( not mothers maiden name- so Ill change that one
"who pays into the account" which theyd know
"when does it get paid" which theyd know
"how much is it for" which theyd know
whats the OD limit which they wouldnt know

So grudgingly im going ot have to do this. But surely this is absoultetly ridiculous- Im going to speaktothe ICO about it tmorrow.

Savvy_Sue

lynzpower wrote: »

would this be reason to be sacked tho if i lied about this do you thnk?

I don't know ... never been in a situation where I felt I needed to do this! just I find it personally very frustrating when I've set a password and can't for the life of me remember what it is! And your mother's maiden name isn't usually something you'd be expected to forget, is it? although you might well not know it!

I also had problems when a bank I did telephone banking with had mis-spelled the memorable place name I gave them! I knew that if I was getting all of the first 4 letters correct, then what followed must be V W X Y Z. Only the operator kept saying those letters were wrong, and it took me a while to work out they only had 8 letters in the place name not 9!

And we do internet banking at work, and each person who can access the account needs to give a password, a memorable date, a memorable name, their mother's maiden name, and their first school. You always need the password, then any two of the other bits.

At the moment, I am making one of my colleagues authorise ALL the transactions I possibly can, because she can never remember what information she's used and has to phone the bank to be unblocked. She WILL learn! :rotfl: The rest of us had to - I was confusing my memorable name with my mother's maiden name initially!