Yahoo Finance Woman receives creepy texts after man gets her number through Track and Trace
Lucy Dixon, a 32-year-old model and dancer from near Leamington Spa, Warwick, shared a series of creepy texts she received from a bar man known as Tom, who sourced her number from the venue's Track and Trace system. Seriously, not cool...
In the bar man's opening messages to Lucy, he initially denied how he came to have her phone number, at first claiming he'd got it from Instagram: "Hey gorgeous, hope you’re well? Xx" he wrote, followed by "Was fun seeing you at the [name of pub]".
Naturally, as you might expect, Lucy was a little baffled to be receiving the messages and so asked who the sender was, to which the replies "Tom... I was working the night that you came in, you're gorgeous" appeared. When pressed by Lucy, who asked, "How did you get my number?" Tom's response was, "Off Insta. Hope that’s ok?"
After pointing out that her number isn't posted on social media, Tom then said (according to a report from The Metro), "Sorry if not. If you want me to leave it’s fine. Where abouts you from?" By this point, Lucy had figured out that as per the government scheme to help record the spread of coronavirus, she'd left her number with the bar through their app and that must have been how Tom got it.
"Have you taken my number from when I ordered drinks through the app last night?" she asked, to which Tom replied, "Maybe. But if you want me to leave it is fine. Sorry if so. I’m guessing so." I mean, seriously Tom – in what world would that ever be fine?!
Lucy then, rightfully so, pointed out that him taking her personal information from the system is a huge data breach: "You know that’s against the law?" Tom then responded, "As I said I’m sorry so I’ll leave it." (Thanks pal, so glad you're now going to leave it when nobody ever asked you to message in the first place...).
Sharing the experience, Lucy posted screen grabs of the conversation to her Facebook page, with the caption, "Track and Trace, and bars having to take down your details in order for you to be there these days.... And this is exactly what should never happen. A complete breach of GDPR. Currently getting to the bottom of how and why this has happened. Surely these are meant to be secure databases no?" Our thoughts exactly.
This morning, the government announced that a new COVID-19 contact-tracing app will be launched across Wales and England, wherein businesses are being told to display QR codes for customers to scan upon entry. Here's hoping the cyber security involved is a lot tighter than the current systems in place...
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