Names, Addresses, and Phone numbers on invoices are usually public records. There’s not much hackers can do with the information, right?
Secure communication of invoices
Not Right. Identity cannot be stolen with just name and address. But names can be plugged-in public databases and other related information can be retrieved. A long digital trial of an individual can can be followed to get enough information to open a financial account, or to make purchases. Invoices can contain data to fill in the lacuna.
For example, After every purchase a user makes on an ecommerce site, they receive an invoice for it as an email. This invoice includes the PII of the user. It consists of the details of food items purchased, the mobile number, address, and mode of payment for the purchase. There are a plethora of perils in sending invoices with such crucial information as plain text emails. Firstly, As it is in plain text, the email service provider reads it, stores it, and may even share the data in these emails with 3rd parties. Secondly, the information in these invoices is crucial, for example, the details of purchased food items. Email service providers can share these details with various insurance agencies, and they know the quantity and frequency of the food we consume. Our insurers know what we eat.
Any e-commerce platform can use Zunu to send privacy-preserving invoices to customers. The information, which is enormous PII like what one eats, what one wears, and where one goes is invisible to every email service provider and any 3rd parties.