Boss requesting to give personal data to third party

Jamie_Carter

borderline wrote: »

I've never done a CRB... how can do it myself? they won't accept it, they want a copy of my passport sent to them, am I allowed to send this CRB instead? is there a fee for this?

I guess that they want your passport in order to carry out a CRB check on you. Otherwise any official ID would do. After all, your passport doesn't even state your address.

A CRB check costs about £30 through the company in the link I gave a few posts back.

Jamie_Carter

LittleVoice wrote: »

Forget about the CRB. CRBs are now DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks. You can't get these on yourself (which is why you were given a link to Disclosure Scotland where you can get something similar). An employer can get one but needs you to complete and sign a form, not simply send them a copy of your passport.

It doesn't matter what they are called now, you can get them done yourself. In fact any self employed contractor who works at an airport will have one that they have arranged themselves. So please don't give out wrong information.

ValHaller

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

I guess that they want your passport in order to carry out a CRB check on you. Otherwise any official ID would do. After all, your passport doesn't even state your address.

A CRB check costs about £30 through the company in the link I gave a few posts back.

But it is only a guess on your part.

They should be asking for consent to do a CRB check, so OP would know all about it. In the circumstances described, I cannot see that a CRB check to use a 3rd party system is even legal.

LittleVoice

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

It doesn't matter what they are called now, you can get them done yourself. In fact any self employed contractor who works at an airport will have one that they have arranged themselves. So please don't give out wrong information.

Oh, yes?????

Please provide a link to an official website which says that self-employed people, as self-employed, can have DBS checks carried out on themselves.

It's rather better to be accurate - so DBS it is.

Please try to understand that you are requested not to give out incorrect information

borderline

they want to do an electronic Identity check.
And yes, they want my address too

ILW

I would guess it is some sort of anti money laundering thing. They want to check your ID.

john539

Money laundering to check you officially exist ?

Jamie_Carter

ValHaller wrote: »

But it is only a guess on your part.

They should be asking for consent to do a CRB check, so OP would know all about it. In the circumstances described, I cannot see that a CRB check to use a 3rd party system is even legal.

It is a foreign company, so the laws are probably different.

The fact is that having passport details, as well as a few other details (that the OP's employer may or may not have provided), then the details culd be used for identity theft.

I would suggest that the OP demands to know exactly what information the company needs, and why. And that if it is just for security checks, that the OP's employer verifies any information required, without sending copies of passports to foreign companies.

Jamie_Carter

LittleVoice wrote: »

Oh, yes?????

Please provide a link to an official website which says that self-employed people, as self-employed, can have DBS checks carried out on themselves.

It's rather better to be accurate - so DBS it is.

Please try to understand that you are requested not to give out incorrect information

I have one for myself dated november 2012, which I got another company to carry out on my behalf.

So I'm not guessing, or one of those people who thinks they know, but really don't. I actually have one, as do many other people.

Jamie_Carter

borderline wrote: »

they want to do an electronic Identity check.
And yes, they want my address too

Your employer could do that for them.