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ClearScore's lax attitude towards personal data security
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You can see TransUnion on Credit Karma which is their equivalent of Clear Score for Equifaxvadek said:Experian has a free app. TransUnion is available via MSE Credit Club (or Lloyds Bank, if you're with them). Equifax is only available for free via ClearScore - otherwise you have to pay Equifax (after a free month).Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Exactly the same method as I was requested to use by Scottish Widows when I wanted to sell some old unit trusts held with them: this about 2 years ago along with scans of my Chartered accountant certified passport copy and bank statement copy. All done and accepted within a day as I recall: Easy!vadek said:
So I contacted ClearScore and, after an initially friendly and helpful email asking which email address I wished to proceed with, they told me to send a picture of my passport or driving licence in the same frame as my face by an email attachment!! Good grief! How unprofessional can you get? Sending this kind of personal data in the clear by email is flouting basic security tenets.
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@vadek the Information Commissioner (ICO) might be worth contacting.0
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