It would appear that some organisations, particularly employment agencies and event organisers, operate a business model that has unlawful data processing at its heart. Having recently settled out of court with the same employment agency Read More …
How well-known organisations are abusing our right of Subject Access to avoid having to comply with requests. I recently started receiving marketing e-mails from a retail chain out of the blue. The organisation claimed that Read More …
Dennis Publishing is a publisher of popular magazines such as PC Pro, Computer Shopper and Men’s Fitness. Dennis Publishing obtained my personal information when I signed-up to a trial of their PC Pro magazine. Funnily Read More …
What started out as a reasonable response, ended in disaster for the Post Office It’s common knowledge that insurance businesses offer competitive quotes for insurance to attract new customers but then hike up the cost Read More …
Having threatened to file a claim for compensation, in pursuant to Section 13 DPA 1998, Go Outdoors agreed to settle the matter out of court. I visited a Go Outdoors’s store in November 2017 to Read More …
Unsolicited electronic marketing by default may prove costly for UK companies as the ICO tells Halfords to offer its customers a simple means of refusing the use of their information for electronic marketing purposes when Read More …
While I applaud the BBC for their reporting of the Paradise Papers, they admit that the personal information was obtained from a leaked source. They also keep reiterating that what these organisations and individuals are Read More …
I’m struggling to get an answer from the ICO, as to how the companies that pay to use Monster’s CV database obtain explicit consent to process any sensitive personal information that individuals might have added Read More …
Morrisons Commercial Lawyer is unable to identify a single valid benefit that either party gains from being contractually bound by the data processing outlined in their privacy policy, so what’s the point? When I attempted Read More …
But the ICO confirms that taking organisations to court for non-compliance is the right course of action. Having purchased a battery from Euro Car Parts in January, they proceeded to target me with unsolicited marketing Read More …