Received someone else’s DSAR, would you tell them?

masonic

Eyeful said:

masonic said:

Eyeful said:

brianposter said:

Why not just post the DSAR to the intended recipient.

I would think, because it might get "lost in the post" & end up in they hands of  professional fraudsters.
Then the person who the DSAR info is about, could have very real and expensive problems. 

Are you saying DSAR responses shouldn't be sent by post in the first place? As currently they usually are.

My thinking is that:

1.If you ask for the your DSAR and it does not turn up in good time then you can at least take steps to try & protect yourself.

2. If the OP sends someone else's DSAR to them in the post & it never gets to them
(a) If that other person is not told before hand, that person will have no chance to protect themselves.
(b) If the other person is told by the OP to expect their DSAR and it never turns up,  the other person may well think it is part of some scam, so just ignore it.

There's a reasonable argument that such information shouldn't be sent by post, which is why I asked.

Personally, I prefer to receive nothing by post when I have the alternative of logging in to a secure portal to access the information.

The postal system is not what it once was, but human error is most likely to occur in back office operations...

Similar to the OP, I once closed a Tesco current account, and at the time they used to send your full statement history to you by post whether you wanted it or not. It was an account I hardly used, so imagine my surprise when I received an envelope stuffed with about 30 pages - a couple for my own account and the rest for some random other person, probably sent to the printer at the same time and stuffed into my envelope by mistake before being reprinted. I didn't attempt to forward it or get in touch, in part because of reasons already mentioned (I only had a postal address, which may not have been current), but also because it was less effort to shred and forget.