Your bank statement for sale

[mossy1200]

I dont need to worry. I vet all my money into pay pal to purchase online porn. Nobody will ever trace me and send junk mail to further my addiction to granny secks.

[Conquiztador]

I am sooo glad I have a Swiss bank account!

[blue rider]

I am sooo glad I have a Swiss bank account!

oh yeah?
you share?

[Ocean1]

thank you.....but these are the transactions i make.

if someone expects me to buy a pair of heels on my eftpos the be shit out of luck. but they will find chain lube, wof, rego, and other such stuff.

expectations are overrated.
reality bites.

Fine. But don't be surprised if, in a couple of years you can't get insurance because you don't match any insurance company's customer profiles.

why are you always so grumpy?

Am fucking not.

[Conquiztador]

oh yeah?
you share?

The whole idea with them is that you have them so you do not have to share...

[blue rider]

lucky i am already insured.....and to think that when i came first to NZ i was offered a job with the National Bank because I had a clean bank record, due to never having had a bank account in this country. lol


I still do a lot of cash transactions i like to do my shopping on markets, shop local, support nz made and that. However over winter it is not always easy. .

alas i am to poor for a bank account in switzerland....not enough quatloos i am paid for the work i do

[FJRider]

i understand,

however if i start pulling out cash and pay my transactions with cash instead of eftpos......well my statements will be slim, rent, electricity, phone, bike....the rest none of anyone's business.

i can't prevent my information from being stolen and sold, but I can keep the information gleaned to a minimum.

The information contained with one company means little. But if the information all companys have on your spending history share their information on where and on what you buy. Small bites of info mount up.

[Conquiztador]

The funny thing is that it is only if you have something to hide that all this becomes and issue...

[blue rider]

The funny thing is that it is only if you have something to hide that all this becomes and issue...

yeah, sure tui....

i have heard this before.......fact is my shopping and spending attitude, is my shopping and spending attitude. I am already bombarded with advertising everywhere, do I now want to get targeted. Fuck no.

i have not given any financial institution the right to auction my private information to to the highest bidder. Someone wants my personal information, they can give me a call and ask.

After all, if they don't have anything to hide, they can come to me directly and it won't be an issue. Because i will tell them to bugger off.

[Hans]

The funny thing is that it is only if you have something to hide that all this becomes and issue...

Surely you've got to be trolling me.

[Akzle]

i have not given any financial institution the right to auction my private information to to the highest bidder.

actually. you did.
you do not own a bank account. one was opened through your person/NAME, so as you can work in the wonderful world of commerce.
if you accept joinder with your person, which you apparently do, (you were certainly acting as though, when you SIGNED the contract with your bank) then YOU absolutely gave them that right. (and forfeited any you may have had)

the bank administers the account for your NAME. don't be fooled just because you have a card with the NAME on it.
(if you don't believe me, try getting the bank NOT to pay you interest (whereby NOT paying the tax on the interest))

[blue rider]

actually. you did.
you do not own a bank account. one was opened through your person/NAME, so as you can work in the wonderful world of commerce.
if you accept joinder with your person, which you apparently do, (you were certainly acting as though, when you SIGNED the contract with your bank) then YOU absolutely gave them that right. (and forfeited any you may have had)

the bank administers the account for your NAME. don't be fooled just because you have a card with the NAME on it.
(if you don't believe me, try getting the bank NOT to pay you interest (whereby NOT paying the tax on the interest))

then as i said before....minimize all transactions to only those for which a bank account is needed and start paying everything else in cash. they might get information from me, but its boring as.

if i can't prevent harm , and this will only do harm, i must do the darnest to keep it to a minimum. and yes my tinfoil hat suits me well....it is very stylish.

[allycatz]

Well recent experience I just had....totally strange DD set up in my account with name Ive never heard of. Contacted bank who came back and said it was short term loan company and they would dig further. Next month it appears again, this time with reference of NZ Forest & Bird, hmmmmm???? So I ring F&B to whom Ive been making monthly donations to get this " Oh I'm terribly sorry, yes we passed on everyones details to the new company collecting our donations and they were supposed to let everyone know" WTF? So hello lady what about asking my permission before giving away my bank account details? Anyways, they have now lost a reasonable size monthly donation for doing so.

[short-circuit]

The financial sector is a fucken rort. This sort of exploitation (not to mention the economic disaster that has been the Western economy for the last five years) is precisely why all banks should be Nationalised.

They should simply act as utilities - given the sole purpose of holding customers money.

[Brett]

I think one needs to take for granted these days that there is no information around an individual that is safe. Personally I have a great credit history...do I want everyone to know that though??? Hell no. My personal details, in any form, should not be able to be passed on to anyone. However, the Privacy Act seems to have many many holes that can be exploited if an org wants some info. Be glad we're not the USA, apparently their personal information protection laws are very very light. NZ as part of the developed world it supposedly one of the better countries for personal information protection.