Reply to post: Re: Postcodes [in the UK] can be personal too

Travel agent leaked customer data by – this is embarrassing – giving it away in a hackathon

Cuddles

Re: Postcodes [in the UK] can be personal too

Exactly what I was going to say. My parents' postcode is shared by four houses. A friend who moved into a new build briefly had the only occupied property at their postcode (although convincing anyone it actually existed at all was a bit of a struggle, and you still can't find it with Google maps). What kind of idiot thinks address, gender, date of birth and holiday information are somehow not personal data? Personal information doesn't mean every single piece of data can directly identify a specific person.

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