Personal data exposed on Parcelforce website

[stockhausen]

Personal data including the signatures of recipients has been exposed to those tracking deliveries on the Parcelforce website, the BBC has discovered.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8107737.stm

It will be amazing to see how many people are called "M Mouse" and "D Duck"

 

[monkeyspank]

Does anyone really ever use their actual signature to sign for parcels?

 

[Steve2000]

Does anyone really ever use their actual signature to sign for parcels?

With the little PDA things they give you to sign with I think it's impossible to write your signature properly.

 

[Dolph]

Still, it could be worse, it could be 26million child benefit recipent records with every bit of information possible included...

 

[TheMightyTen]

I noticed that yesterday, was using tracking to trace the progress of my new tent coming from Thetford and got a litlle disturbed when it appeared it was about to be loaded on a plane at Heathrow bound for Japan , it was then that I noticed it was an entirely different Parcel number. Then for the rest of the day I was randomly being shown track info for items all over the world