Dec
17
Privacy act and other legal issues?
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Serendipity asked:
A is a company that is involved in the collection of marketing information (magazine subscriptions) and usually purchases them off other parties. The thing is, one of A’s employee saw that a firm also included their consumer’s credit card and personal details. The employee said that it shouldnt go into their database but this was rebutted by his boss, as he thinks only the database managers would have access.
A is a company that is involved in the collection of marketing information (magazine subscriptions) and usually purchases them off other parties. The thing is, one of A’s employee saw that a firm also included their consumer’s credit card and personal details. The employee said that it shouldnt go into their database but this was rebutted by his boss, as he thinks only the database managers would have access.
The question here is, under the Australian law, what are some of the legal issues faced and the dilemma the employee is facing? What could and should he do? Help please!
Thanks
JORGE
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WILLIAM
Seeing that this appears to be your homework assignment, ask your teacher or parents. If this is true, ask an attorney.
CLEVELAND
I’m in America, but here (about 6 or 7 years ago) they added new info to the credit card agreement that one company I deal with (there bookkeeping) that they cannot keep the info….last 4 digits of cc# is all they can keep on file without written consent to keep it on file! also another company who does keep that kind of info for re billing purposes had to go thru everything and remove any printouts that had full cc’s on it and several POS (Point of Sale) software (which is what the computerized software the retails stores use on there cash registers) have been upgraded to not print that on there at all (per credit card company requirements) So more than likely unless they got written (or at least verbal) permission from everyone they would be breaking the law…and just like large companies that have been hacked and gotten cc info from major lawsuits of at least Civil if not Criminal charges filed!