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Originally Posted by jtfrogger
If I did business with your company, and you demanded to write down my driver's licence number in that situation, I would be reporting you to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta. The amount of effort you would take to deal with the issue would probably be worth more than $190 to you. Not that I would try to be punitive. I simply would not want you to record this information.
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I doubt that you would ever be in that situation because one thing I neglected to mention in my OP is that he didn't have another way of paying. So we could have called the police and had him charged (under Sec 364 of the Criminal Code of Canada), we have done it twice in the past, and yes they do take them away in the police car. But we thought we were safe since the photo and name on the drivers licence matched and the card was approved when we entered it manually. But the police said it doesn't apply if he leaves after paying and then contests it with Visa, in that case it's a civil matter and I have to sue him.
The link you posted was from 2008 and was intended for retailers. It doesn't apply because obviously a retailer can refuse to part with merchandise if the method of payment is unsatisfactory. The current legislation allows the collection of personal information with consent and its use for purposes which are reasonable. So I think taking down the drivers licence number for the purpose of protecting myself from a potentially fraudulent card would comply, even if you don't agree, and as it turned out, didn't offer any protection.
But IMO, if you did business with me, incurred charges, had no other way to pay and refused to show me ID to prove the damaged credit card was actually yours I don't think it would be worth it for you either.