Is it stalking if a delivery man searches your name on Facebook and messages you??

[Shoot4theMoon]

There was a delivery driver form DPD and I’d have him often delivering my parcels he would always try to chat and keep me chatting we were of a similar age but like I’m not interested. I then got a random message request off some guy I didn’t recognise the name the message said hi how’s you so I replied saying who is this? Do I know you? His reply was I’ll give you a guess….. I work for DPD and I’m often at your house. I then knew! I asked how he found me did we have friends in common? No he said he just searched my name from on the parcels and found out. I haven’t messaged back and I don’t want to get him in trouble but is this stalking ? Is there some law to what he’s done ?

Of course it applies. The only reason he knows her name and address is through his job. He didn’t find out through a friend of a friend.

He took information he had - by virtue of his job - to look the OP up on Facebook. When she ordered something to be delivered, she did not consent to her personal data being used for this purpose.

He will at the very least have breached his own employer’s rules on processing data. If his employer informs the ICO, he will be in even more trouble.

Because he has got your details from work and used them (processed the data in legal speak) in a way not originally intended (without consent) then he is in serious breach of GDPR. I would complain.

I find responses saying you put your information out there on social media to be so victim-blamey.
Also the responses saying you should fake having a partner who wouldn't like you receiving these messages, it implies you can't think for yourself and decide this behaviour is unpleasant, and that you're only impacted by it as the chattel of some other man.
It's creepy, it's definitely something his employer should be made aware of and I would be very uncomfortable having this person call to my door after this, especially as he knows my address and when I tend to be in, so I'd probably raise it with the police as well in case his behaviour escalates when you quite rightly reject him and report it to DPD.

A taxi driver did this to me once. Very unsettling - creepy fuckers!

That would be creepy (unless OP was actively flirting with him and making it very obvious she was interested!) and unprofessional, but not a GDPR breach, because he’s said something while actually stood in front of her. The breach comes from taking her information and doing something else with it, other than using it for the sole purpose it was provided, ie to deliver her parcel.

When you put your name and address into a website while buying something you want delivered, you agree to it being used for confirming your payment and delivering your items, nothing else (unless you also tick the box agreeing to marketing etc, then they can send you special offers) You don’t expect random people to then decide to start sending you personal letters, turning up at your house or trying to contact you on social media, just because they’ve had access to your details. GDPR is there to protect you from that.

One contact via SM could meet the legal definition of stalking as a criminal offence per section 2A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Section 2A.
You are entitled to report this to the police. You would not be wasting their time; this type of behaviour may simply be immature/ill judged/arrogant or it could be the tip of the iceberg. Likely outcome, unless this person has antecedents or other evidence of concern comes to light is "words of advice."
The associated issue of the GDPR breach arising from the misuse of your personal data is something that you can, if you wish, report to DPD and they're obliged to self report to the Information Commissioners Office.

This thread is from February.

Report him to dpd, and the police purely to make them aware, it's creepy and predatory

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