Am I Too Paranoid?

Sometimes I wonder whether I am too paranoid. I just got a call, which went like that:

Caller:	“Hello, we are doing a health insurance survey and have just three questions for you, would you mind to join in? Just 20 seconds. We do it for Health Insurance statistics. ”
Me:	Was in a very good mood “Sure, shoot”
Caller:	“What is your health insurer? ”
Me:	Gave her the name
Caller:	“In which year were you born? ”
Me:	“What exactly do you need this data for? ”
Caller:	Slightly upset ”As I said: for Health Insurance statistics! ”
Me:	“And what company are your working for? ”
Caller:	Hang up

She did not even say goodbye

Am I too paranoid with such things? This is my data and I was fairly surprised that she was unable (or unwilling) to answer the questions

Roger

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Usually me neither but this time, I wanted to do her a favour :-)

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2010
  I wouldn't have even gone as far as you did, but more out of annoyance with callers rather than data privacy.  Though I probably wouldn't have given my info either! Though its possible she had to churn through a lot of calls and wanted quantity over quality.

• Anonymous
  August 19, 2010
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