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A direct line to marketing hell Unregulated telephone harassment by automated dialling machines is fast becoming a major privacy issue Like millions of people across Britain, I now refuse to answer my home landline number, and with good justification.
Tags: Privacy International, ICO, phone line, United Kingdom, London, Information Commissioner's Office, Human rights, Telemarketing, Data privacy, Orange United Kingdom, Ofcom, Telephone Preference Service
Information commissioner Christopher Graham revealed that phone company staff had allegedly sold "many thousands of customer account details", notably contract renewal data, to competitors for "substantial amounts of money". T-Mobile confirmed late Tuesday...
Tags: Britain, Christopher Graham, United Kingdom, London, .mobi, Information Commissioner's Office, ICO, ICO Global Communications, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, Mobile phone, Technology Internet
An employee of mobile phone operator T-Mobile is facing prosecution after selling personal details of thousands of British customers to rival companies in an alleged major breach of data protection laws. In a statement, T-Mobile UK, part of Deutsche Telekom...
Tags: mobile phone, Christopher Graham, phone companies, personal data, rivals firms, customer records, data protection, Information Commissioner's Office, Brazil, Icó, T-Mobile, HTC Dream, .mobi, Deutsche Telekom, Orange United Kingdom, T-Mobile USA, Law Crime, ICO Global Communications, ICO, Data Protection Act, Privacy law, Information privacy, Magistrate, Privacy, Data privacy, Computer crimes, Computer law, Mobile telecommunications, KPN, Cashback, Customer experience management, Technology Internet, Watchdog
Britain's privacy watchdog said that Google Street View should not be removed or shut down, dismissing concerns that the service was too invasive. Google's Street View program, which carries panoramic, high-quality photographers of street scenes across...
Tags: Britain, Privacy International, privacy watchdog, data protection, protection act, Google Street View, UK Information Commissioner’s Office, watchdog rejected, Information Commissioner's Office, Information Commissioner Office
The information watchdog has shut down a company which sold construction workers' confidential data, including union activities, to building firms. A raid on The Consulting Association in Droitwich, Worcs, revealed a serious breach of the Data Protection...
Tags: Consulting Association, Britain, face legal, Information Commissioner’s Office, legal action, data protection, Information Commissioner's Office, construction workers
The boxes were taken from Sadie Graham's home in Brinsley, Nottinghamshire. Police packed the boxes from Graham's terraced house into unmarked cars before leaving with a woman Graham is understood to have been arrested on Thursday, along with another...
Tags: BNP, Nottinghamshire Police, Information Commissioner's Office, Sadie Graham, Brinsley