News » An Post can't say how it got a woman's data to send out a TV licence 2017-07-15
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AN POST SAYS it cannot say where it obtains data for TV licences, but insists that all information is obtained legally.
The utility was responding after a woman was sent a TV licence in her married name, despite most of her other bills being in her maiden name.
Marie* told TheJournal.ie that her case was “even more confusing” because she had set up her Electric Ireland – with whom she had used her new, married name – account in the wrong address.
“This year I moved into an apartment in Dublin and I took out an Electric Ireland account using my married name, which I very rarely use,” she explained.
“I accidentally registered the account with Apartment 1 of our complex, instead of my own apartment – number 2.
Two weeks later, a letter is delivered to Apartment 1 with my married name on it stating a TV licence is needed for the apartment.
This was really suspicious to me. I have no other accounts with my married name anywhere. Even with Revenue, I still go by my maiden name.
Electric Ireland, however, says it does not share customers’ data with An Post – or any other organisation.
A statement said it did not share Marie’s data: