article_snippet.sent: the Mail the Mail has this week exposed companies that have secretly sold private financial and medical information without proper checks.
article_snippet.sent: Such data is a goldmine for unscrupulous firms and criminals – who can use it to target vulnerable individuals and scam vulnerable individuals over the phone.
article_snippet.sent: The whistleblower, who works in the data industry, said it was ‘madness’ that so much personal information was available to him and him had passed so much personal information to the Mail because him was worried about who else might have access to so much personal information.
article_snippet.sent: him said: ‘I am not registered with the regulators, I’m just a man who has worked in the data industry at some point – and all this information is available to him.
article_snippet.sent: The whistleblower, who works in the data industry said:
article_snippet.sent: We give We private health and financial details to people We trust, it is not fair our private health and financial details end up in the hands of people We don’t.
article_snippet.sent: He said He had been sent databases containing records of thousands of people’s pensions, investments and intimate health details.
article_snippet.sent: Data sold our undercover reporters the financial data of 15,000 people – including details about 15,000 people – pension pots, incomes and investments.
article_snippet.sent: People must be able to trust those with whom People share People data.
article_snippet.sent: In meetings covertly filmed by our reporters, bosses at B2C Data were seen boasting of how bosses at B2C Data held thousands of details on every family in Britain.
article_snippet.sent: When asked how the information was obtained, the firm’s owner, hypnotherapist Joanne Clayton, said: ‘It could be people who bought mobility products from a catalogue … or even if they’ve been on holiday
highlights_snippet.sent: Whistleblower says Whistleblower 'madness' so much personal information is available .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Schools, dentists and even a Whitehall department bought data from unscrupulous firms trading in private information; .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Those whose information has been sold are now plagued by criminals trying to scam Those whose information has been sold on the telephone.