[Rathji]

A couple weeks back, I had a credit company call me about something and they wanted to verify that it was me talking to them, so I said I wasn't going to randomly give this information over the phone to someone who had just called me out of the blue. So they gave me the phone number and I called them back the next day.

So again of course they want to verify my identity and ask for my address. When I get to the address I give them the current one, but I moved last year and I guess I forgot to update their data. So instead of asking me if my address had changed, the lady says"Thats the wrong address, is your address XXXX?"

She just gave me my address, without any confirmation that she was talking to me. Isn't this a violation of FOIP?

And again this morning, a company (I don't even know which one) called me on my cell and it was 5 mins before class. So I tell them to call me back in an hour and I would be glad to talk to them. They said they could only do that if I would give them certian personally identifying information that included my address and other security type questions.

So I refused, since I did not solicit this phone call and have no idea who is calling me other than "British Columbia". They got all pissy and said I was going to cause myself alot of problems if I didn't give this information to get this call back.

So am I way out in left feild on this? Should people be this free with my information or be expecting me to be this free with it? Or am I just over reacting as the obsessive paranoid that I am?