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Taking pictures of business cards?

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fewgroats
fewgroats Posts: 774 Forumite
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Has anyone made any money from this? It does sound rather suspicious.
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  • General_Grant
    General_Grant Posts: 5,276 Forumite
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    fewgroats wrote: »
    Has anyone made any money from this? It does sound rather suspicious.

    Do you mean taking pictures and passing on the data to a third person/organisation? Thereby passing on personal information without consent.
  • fewgroats
    fewgroats Posts: 774 Forumite
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    This does seem to be the job, yes.
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  • Mistral001
    Mistral001 Posts: 5,428 Forumite
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    Ah seems to be a way of getting around the Data Protection Law. Or does it get around it?
  • scaredofdebt
    scaredofdebt Posts: 1,663 Forumite
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    Is business card data "personal"?
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  • ElefantEd
    ElefantEd Posts: 1,224 Forumite
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    Who on earth would pay for this kind of data? Presumably it is largely in the public domain already, what with businesses wanting to advertise themselves.
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,392 Forumite
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    scaredofdebt wrote: »
    Is business card data "personal"?

    If it relates to a named individual, yes.

    And business cards often have direct phone numbers and email addresses for executives.
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