Hi Michelle > Have a similar (though substantially smaller numbers) with Apple > iCloud accounts... main problem there is people sending receipts for > their purchases... you'd think they (the consumers) might be worried > about a third-party getting all their (valid) credit card details, > but I guess not....
Apple has privacy issues with their AppleID's. I also got hit by emails sending me newsletters and recipes from stuff I apparently purchased @ apple. First I thought they were some kind of spam or phishing emails, but upon close inspection, they looked genuine. So according to swiss privacy laws, I asked Apple to send me all the data that was connected to my apparent AppleID and the source where they got that data from. Their reply was: We cannot send you this data, because that AppleID obviously does not belong to you and we have to protect the privacy of that other person. And they kept sending me newsletters etc. pretending that I was not the owner of the said email address used as AppleID. So I proceeded in recovering the password of that AppleID. Logged into that account, found all the billing and personal information from a person in Canada with a Name similar to mine. With that information I asked apple again, how this person could create an AppleID with my email address and learned, that the Email Address used as AppleID, when created in an Apple Shop, are not being verified. What probably happened was that the dealer mistyped the canadian customer's email address when he bought an iPhone (the one I got the bill for) and had it configured by that shop. -Benoît Panizzon- -- I m p r o W a r e A G - Leiter Commerce Kunden ______________________________________________________ Zurlindenstrasse 29 Tel +41 61 826 93 00 CH-4133 Pratteln Fax +41 61 826 93 01 Schweiz Web http://www.imp.ch ______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
