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Privacy issue

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  • 04-01-2010 4:15pm
    #1
    cloudybay13
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭


    i just had a list of all the email addresses of online users? is that not contravening data protection? i could have sent them all spam? i hope no one does so to me!


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    cloudybay13 wrote: »
    i just had a list of all the email addresses of online users? is that not contravening data protection? i could have sent them all spam? i hope no one does so to me!
    Are you sure you did? Where did you get it?


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    cloudybay13
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭cloudybay13


    well i have the link but are you from boards.ie? or just a randomer who may use all the email addresses for mis-use :)


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    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    Hi, can you send me the link please? By PM if at all possible?

    BTW, seamus is also one of the good guys - so you can send it to him too :)

    Thanks a million

    Darragh


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    #5
    cloudybay13
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭cloudybay13


    i acutally think it's just a list of the user names of people online and not as bad as exciting a find as i thought before.


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    If it's that, it might be the same as the list on the front page (go to the bottom of the main www.boards.ie page and you'll see a list). People can make themselves invisible in their User CP so that regular users don't see them on that list but there's no risk in being on that list.

    A list of email addresses is something we'd be very very concerned about.

    Can you still send on the link to Darragh by PM regardless or a screenshot if possible? Judging by your last post you thought you saw something that you didn't but this is the kind of thing that we'd like to be sure about:)


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    Darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭Darragh


    Thanks sceptre - got the emails, forwarded on and there is no list of emails. Which is great :)

    Better be safe than sorry though!


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