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Imagining that the release is true, this will do strange things for pay bargaining. Imagine if you could look up your colleagues before asking for a rise? On th
by shubble 15y ago
Imagining that the release is true, this will do strange things for pay bargaining. Imagine if you could look up your colleagues before asking for a rise?
On the other hand, I don't recall anything really horrific on that form. Enough data to steal my identity and take out a mortgage in my name, yes. Enough to embarrass me? no...
- Peroni 15y agoThere may not be anything in there to embarass me but there is unequivocally enough in there for someone to steal my identity and ruin a credit rating I've been working extremely hard to build over the last three years.
- mariuskempe 15y agoWhat info from the census would enable someone to steal an identity? From the looks of it there's only DoB and address in terms of personal info...
- Peroni 15y agoChildrens names & DoB, previous addresses, employment status, national insurance number. That info alone is enough for someone experienced to do damage.
- jules 15y agoIsn't that info relatively easy to obtain from most people anyway? Not on such a large scale of course.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoYou can obtain that sort of info, by dumpster diving say, but not in anything like the scale. Imagine that you can get this info and a pretty good idea of salary and lifestyle by running a db search in a few seconds. You can easily focus your attention on the most lucrative propositions and get info from even those that are careful to not put such info out there. Census completion is a legal requirement, everyone should be on one.
- antihero 15y agoEssentially if every person in the UK was open to identity theft then this would be an extremely serious issue. Which it could be.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoI don't remember salary being requested on the UK census...
- Peroni 15y agoIt did ask for the household annual income. It also asks for the job title of the various householders so with a small bit of market info you could easily discern who earns what. Regardless, salary info would be the least of my concerns.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoOh. I can't see that question on http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011-census/2011-census-questionnaire-content/2011-census-questions---england.pdf http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011-census/2011-census-questio...
- Peroni 15y agoYou're right. I must have been confusing it with the litany of forms & processes I went through after our son was born. Good find.
- pbhjpbhj 15y agoQ34-40 Job title, Occupation, Employees managed. You didn't look very well ;0)> I remember particularly as this sort of question is hard for me as I don't really have a job title, my occupation is extremely varied.
- mbesto 15y agoAnd what is exactly that is of your concern?
- mathly 15y agoFound the questions (pdf): http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011-census/2011-census-questionnaire-content/2011-census-questions---england.pdf http://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2011-census/2011-census-questio...
- bajsejohannes 15y agoI can easily imagine looking up my colleagues salary, because here in Norway you actually can. (Well, you can look at how much tax they pay, and various websites convert that into an estimated salary) I don't find it particularly interesting, though. People earn around what you expect them to earn.