Carl D wrote on Feb 25
th, 2025 at 7:38pm:
I did postal votes for my elderly aunt and I.
They arrived yesterday, we completed them today and I've posted them back.
Now, what I am pissed off about right now is that when I applied for the postal votes online a week or two back they needed a mobile number and email address.
And it said something like "you understand that we will share you name and address with political parties" or something like that. (It didn't say phone number or email address).
Today, I get an SMS from a mobile number which said something like (I deleted it so I can't remember the exact words):
"We note that you've recently registered for postal voting. To vote for Roger Cook and the ALP tap on this link..." so it's obviously come from the ALP.
I've blocked the number and reported it as spam and I'll do the same for any others that I get from any political party and then I'll make a formal complaint.
At least if they start spamming the email address I provided on the postal voting application I can just close it down because I used a second Gmail address that I hardly use these days.
I wonder what happened to privacy in this country? Assholes.
It's risky giving out you mobile number to anywhere these days.
I even had weeks of spam calls many times after being in hospital for
either a minor operation or a medical procedure..
My suspicion is that someone in those hospitals was selling
mobile numbers and names to the dark web.
Of course you can never prove it -
I tried many times to find out where they got my name and number
and they would never tell me -
and would just continue with their sales spin.
You just have to hang up and block their number and
eventually they go away.