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PPS : someone took photographs

  • 06-08-2016 12:14pm
    #1
    SERGIOGRCUESTA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭


    Hello. I let someone took a picture of my pps (front and back). Should I worry? Is there anything they can do with this information? And if so what should I do? Thanks a lot for the help.


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  • #2
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Do you mean passport?

    Anyways why did they need to get copies?


  • #3
    SERGIOGRCUESTA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭SERGIOGRCUESTA


    The Public Services Card. I was selling something and they asked for a photo ID.


  • #4
    starshine1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭starshine1234


    You probably shouldn't have allowed them to take a photo but it shouldn't matter too much.

    If they are a company or a business then they are subject to the Data Protection Act. The DP Act imposes rules on businesses on how they can collect and use personal data. Your ID card contains personal data, especially your PPS number and your photo.

    I feel it'd be hard for a business to justify photographing your Public Services Card. Social Protection, who issue the card, state on their website that the card is not to be used for ID, and that it isn't an ID card.

    There are only a few businesses that can legally ask for your PPS number. They are mostly state bodies, like Revenue or Social Protection, or banks adminstering state services like Mortgage Interest Relief.


    A private individual can ask for anything he wants and can photograph anything he wants. You could have refused though and he couldn't force you to allow him to copy your card.
    If you have allowed a private individual to copy the card I don't think you can now force him to delete the copy. The photo would have been legally obtained and is now his property.


    If it's a business you can contact them and make a free Section 3 request under the DP act to ask them if they hold personal info on you. They would have to admit to holding the photograph of your card and they would have to give a reason and justify why they continue to hold that information.
    They wouldn't be able to give any justification in my view for retaining a copy of the PSV card, as it contains the highly sensitive and restricted PPS number.


  • #5
    SERGIOGRCUESTA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭SERGIOGRCUESTA


    Thanks a lot


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