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  1. Farnboro John

    RSPB going to phase scannable membership cards from September 2023

    I've now had a careful read of how the RSPB intends to use my personal data and I have no quarrel with much of it. However, they make specific mention of creating membership number identifiable profiles of where I go when. This of course could be useful to a criminal organisation as it creates...
  2. Farnboro John

    RSPB going to phase scannable membership cards from September 2023

    Its not the scannable membership card I mind, its selling on my personal data. John
  3. Farnboro John

    RSPB going to phase scannable membership cards from September 2023

    What brings people in and back is customer service, and that involves helping them to meet their objectives, not yours. If you are running a bird reserve then enabling people to see birds as effectively and efficiently as possible will get you more new memberships (is anyone else's RSPB...
  4. Farnboro John

    RSPB going to phase scannable membership cards from September 2023

    To the extent that I set them out, which is generally less than complete. I hope I'm not in line for a tinfoil hat but when I try to help a charity with an annual membership fee I don't expect it to respond by passing any of my data - and my movements are my data - to anybody else, whether for...
  5. Farnboro John

    RSPB going to phase scannable membership cards from September 2023

    Well, maybe it does. I go to some lengths to prevent companies getting geographic data enabling them to know my movements at the time or afterwards for whatever reason. When the RSPB says data "such as" email, address etc it doesn't rule out "dates and times of use of RSPB facilities" so I agree...
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