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Does any organisation store your private details?

Like when you enter your bank details on internet shopping sites or giving your home adress on a website.

Public Comments

1. Practically every organisation does. I think the worst one is Facebook. I'm getting some amazingly accurate spam nowadays.
2. yes, many websites do nowadays, and could be used for malicious intents, so never give such info to untrustable websites
3. You can choose on some sites to let them store your card no etc if you intend to shop there regularly. Most sites keep your address etc and some sell them on to other organisations, especially your email address, thats why you get tons of spam
4. Yup. Google, Yahoo and most other search engines except Ask, keep some kind of data when you search. Most online retailers such as Amazon keep your creditcard and home address. (You can request to delete your account which they hopefully delete your information.) Your e-mail provider scans all your e-mails and save them on a server, until you delete it, but than it's not completely deleted. If you have a virus it can record all your keys that you hit down, thus providing the virus to record your data, and sent it to the person who created it. There's even a website that scans all the personal info that's available on the web and collects it and makes a page of it. (Lost the link sorry).
5. You name and perso details are stored by almost every site you visit and enter them onto. lots have things like just any old name and email address so they can send u emails, shopping sites sometimes dont keep the card details and make u enter them each time......it's just so you can be identified and dont have to enter all your details every time you buy or login It's quite normal for your details to go through about 150 computers a day, even if you dont use the net at all - the government being the worst culprit, especially when it comes to oops, just lost a laptop with everybody's royal navy applications on, or child support applications.... most sites, unless relatively large, will use an external card processor like paypal, worldpay, secpay, stuff like that, who will have solid security measures in place, and the site itself will store just you login details. there isn't one unitary data authority if that's what you meant, each site keeps their own data and should be registered with data protection in the uk if holding any perso details on a computer system