Remember that the Dutch SNS bank announced they would become the first in the world to offer a MSN Payment system? Well, they did not really announce it but the information leaked on Emerce. Oops. A proof of their problem with confidentiality. I expressed my doubts about the system since MSN can hardly be considered secure.
Today they made another, bigger, mistake. This time showing they don't know anything about proper e-mail use and privacy. They send an e-mail to everybody who registered with Buddy to tell them the Buddy system will become active. They send an e-mail and put all the Buddy members in the CC field of the e-mail, exposing thousands of addresses. (screendump by Geenstijl.nl). This is a very clear and direct violation of their own Privacy Policy.
Glad I didn't sign up.
Phishing anybody?
Update: LogicaCMG developed this brilliant Buddy system for NSN.
So.dumb.