
License Plug
Personal Data and Payment Risks in Online Licence Applications
<p>A driving-licence application can involve enough information to identify a person convincingly. License Plug says in its privacy policy that it may collect names, email addresses, telephone or WhatsApp numbers, shipping addresses, payment information, technical data and communications. Consumers should consider what could happen to that information before deciding whether to submit it.</p><p>The first risk is identity misuse. A name, date of birth, address, photograph, signature and copy of an identity document can be more valuable together than separately. Depending on what is provided, the information might be used in impersonation attempts, false account applications, social-engineering...

