All Posts Tagged With: "ICO"

Mobile phone databases plundered

June 10th, 2009 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

You could soon be getting calls on your mobile phone asking if you want to speak to any number of cold callers, nosy parkers, tabloid gossip hacks or council snoopers

A new company called Connectivity [www.118800.co.uk] is about to start offering a service which allows you to dial 118800, give an individual’s name and address, when they’ll try to connect you with any of 42 million British mobile users.

They claim that the call recipients’ privacy is protected because they do not give out their numbers. They send a text or leave a voicemail announcing that someone would like to talk to them (with a caller’s name given) and a number on which to call them back (presumably at their own expense). However, it’s clear from the demo call currently on the 118800.co.uk website that callers could give any name they thought likely the recipient would respond to – perhaps even a specifically enticing one.

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The ICO get a Guilty Plea…

May 29th, 2009 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

All power to the Information Commissioner, Richard Thomas who has instigated a fresh prosecution for offences against the Data Protection Act. Despite lack of resources, he has been resolute in bringing such prosecutions where he can, when he stands a chance of seeing a conviction.

Ian Kerr operates an organisation innocuously called the Consulting Agency which trades in personal, sometimes very long term personal information about British construction workers – particularly any items that might indicate a tendency to combat malpractice and injustice to members of the workforce.

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