Reply to post: Re: You keep it for how long?!

Capital One gets Capital Done: Hacker swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Re: You keep it for how long?!

Companies get around the GDPR 6 year data retention rule in the UK by asking specific security questions relating to older data on your credit file, so that the information is then updated aka. renewed by asking a security question related to it. In essence, it then becomes 'new updated data' on you, which can be kept again for another 6 years.

Always refuse to answer any question that doesn't relate to the past 6 years, it's none of their business.

Just state the question they are asking is related to information older than 6 years.

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