My guess is that this would have been decided around or just before September.

I don’t have many friends left at Intel and I suppose I may never really know how this played out exactly, but it’s rare for people in positions like this to voluntarily retire and step down.

truly the most american thing I’ve ever seen.

Maybe it was some sort of federation issue?

is there an article related to this?

Chances are that this was already decided quite a while ago from now.

I was a little confused by the tone of this one. I scrolled back up and realised it was written by Signal’s Meredith Whittaker, and it made a bit more sense.

I see, good to know. There’s always potential for that. I suppose we’ll see in the coming weeks.

I suppose there’s a chance but it’s not even my main payment method. I primarily use an entirely different card from a different vendor for the majority of my purchases today.

I’m also wondering what a fraudulent customer would need to do to warrant a test charge. I can’t think of anything an end user would do to invoke an attempt of $0.00 on their first transaction with my details.

Appreciate the information. An associate of mine did allude to this being the case, key thing is they’ve attempted a transaction on this payment method and I’ve told them to stop.

I thought about that, but it’s an entirely new card. Even if they had the AN, SC, Card number, they’d still need the new expiry date and security number. I don’t think these are required for business, however.

Yup, reported this to the ICO two days ago.

I suppose I did want to find out if it happened to other people ahead of reaching out, but it can take up to 15 weeks for a case to get looked at, so I figured I’d send it asap.

I neglected to mention in the post that I’ve already reached out to the ICO. Appreciate you linking this here for others in the UK who have dealt with the same thing though

That’s why we have the ICO here in the UK (and similar government bodies across Europe)

As mentioned near the top, I preusme this was an automated test charge to check the validity of the payment method

lmao

Thanks for the input. I wonder if you were amongst the first few people to delete their account in response to the controversy.

In the back of my mind, I feel the same way, but at least they can be fined for infractions like this.

Appreciate the sentiment nonetheless

I love it when people fully out themselves like this haha