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Re:Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biome... by peteretep on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:09PM (#15812153) 

    > retailers who ask for the TFN
Why would a retailer ask for it? I don't think I've been asked for my NI number (the UK equivalent) by anyone except people dealing with my tax (including banks) or by the government directly when registering for services.
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Re:Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biome... by chris_wot on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:48PM (#15813546)
They don't as a rule, but I believe there have been a few who have tried.
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Re:Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biome... by lostboys67 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @04:46AM (#15814589)
Its I believe highly illegal when I worked for BT in the UK misuse of NI numbers was a very serious gross misconduct offence - we go read the riot act over this it was almost as bad as corruptly looking up data on individuals info - say the queens private number ;-)
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Re:Amazon Is Asking Indians to Hand Over Their Aadhaar Biome... by peteretep on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:08AM (#15813623)
... to what end? Credit reports can presumably be looked up without them if they're not asked for regularly.
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