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Lol, do you even need it? The headline speaks volumes.🤣

Almost 1 in 3 Brits between 18 and 34 years old have received unwanted contact from delivery drivers or other workers asking them out on dates or for sex, the UK's data watchdog has warned.

The survey of over 2,000 British adults carried out for the Information Commissioner's Office found that, in total, 17% of people have had their personal information used for a romantic or sexual proposition after handing it over to a business.

That figure rises to 33% in London, where such incidents are most common.

"People have the right to order a pizza, or give their email for a receipt, or have shopping delivered, without then being asked for sex or a date a little while later," said Emily Keaney, a deputy commissioner at the ICO.

"Our research today shows a disturbingly high number of people, particularly young people, are falling prey to these text pests," she added.

In June, a female Etihad Airways passenger told The Guardian how she felt unsafe after a worker contracted by the airline found her phone number in the company system then sent her unsolicited text messages.

"There may be, amongst some, an outdated notion that to use someone's personal details given to you in a business context to ask them out is romantic or charming," Keaney said. "Put quite simply, it is not – it is against the law."

A growing number of firms, particularly in delivery, transport, or logistics, rely on gig economy or contract workers. These workers are not entitled to the same employment rights as full-time workers, the jobs can be precarious and badly paid, and turnover is often high. One consequence is that sensitive customer information, such as phone numbers and addresses, is accessible to casual workers.

The ICO did not explicitly name any companies, but pointed to "major businesses" operating in food and parcel delivery.

Its survey found that two-thirds of the UK public believe it isn't morally right to use personal details given for business purposes for romantic or sexual propositions.

The regulator said it's cracking down on such occurrences, asking victims to come forward, and reaching out to companies to remind them of their data protection responsibilities.

If a company is found not to be following data-protection laws, it can be fined up to £17.5 million ($22.1 million) or 4% of its global turnover

I would totally love not to be in a traffic jam, especially while on the clock as I don't get paid for the drive time to and from work.

Lol, I wonder what full-auto looks like🤣

Not everyone works in an office. Construction, trades, and utility works still need vehicles to work on and create infrastructure out and indoors.

You'll also have tons of people in rural area like farmers and ranchers that still need vehicles.

That being said most of those vehicles will be electric soon. My company will be moving to electric starting in 3 years.

PS: I'm a utility worker, and we take our work vehicles home foe weather emergencies, so the transportation line is a little blurred for me

The problem most people have is their credit, not the mortgage payments. Both my mortgages (I'm not a landlord, but I do airbnb 3 months out of the year) are $1500/month, and most people pay that and more just for rent.

Nevermind the fact that some people are eligible to buy a home, but think they won't qualify so they dont try. I was in that group with a credit score of 680, which is acceptable for the first time home owners program. I was accepted, and now I own 2 homes.

Same here. I'm a fiber tech for a cable company, and working 4×10's are awesome. I only work 2 extra hours, and I barely get more work than I did when I worked 8 hours.

It's fucking awesome😃

Ok I get now. I can definitely see both sides of the argument, and it's not going to be easy to solve.

Copyright law needs to be updated to deal with all the new ways people and companies are using tech to access copyrighted material.

What the article is explaining is cliff notes or snippets of a story. Isn't that allowed in some respect? People post notes from school books all the time, and those notes show up in Google searches as well.

I totally don't know if I'm right, but doesn't copyright infringement involve plagiarism like copying the whole book or writing a similar story that has elements of someone else's work?

Yeah, it totally doesn't happen. I highly doubt you even served.....

https://www.newsweek.com/ukrainian-troops-seen-killing-russian-pows-video-1695896

Got any testimony from Ukraine soldiers saying they kill POWs?

If they have half a brain they probably wouldn't admit to that as it would be self-incriminating.🤣