Comments on: Tesco data – the response

By: Dafydd Vaughan

Dafydd Vaughan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:04:02 +0000

T,
Thanks for your comments. I was the one who did the blurring on the screen dumps, obviously I didn’t make the connection between the 2 names on the letter and the names in the notes when going through everything. Thanks for pointing the inconsistency out.

With regards to plain text passwords, I have unfortunately come across numerous web services over the past few years that store passwords in plain text. I mentioned the issue in an earlier blog post (http://www.consumerfocuslabs.org/datablog/data-protection-requests-done-right). Thank you for providing us with the link above – it is an interesting read and worthy of some thought.

Dafydd

By: T

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:40:54 +0000

and who did the blurring of the peoples names’ – was it yourself or tesco, as it would seem to be that Julie and Ewan on the screendumps are probably the same people who have sent and signed letters to you where you didnt blur out their name/signatures

By: T

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:33:21 +0000

You mean they didn’t prodive you with the password to your online account! – see jemjabella.co.uk/blog/plain-text-passwords-at-tesco

By: Richard Pope

Richard Pope — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:06:56 +0000

Brilliant work! Keep it up.

By: Gareth Thomas

Gareth Thomas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:02:50 +0000

I wish to nominate this for worst UI ever.

And mention that on Page 4, they spelt Teatotal wrong.

By: What have we been up to? « Consumer Focus Labs

What have we been up to? « Consumer Focus Labs — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:47:29 +0000

[...] We’ve continued to chase Tesco with our data protection request. They have finally responded and sent some of our data to us – although it isn’t quite what we were expecting. I’ll be posting some more details about this on our data blog shortly. (Update: You can read the response from Tesco here). [...]