article_snippet.sent: The revelations have prompted probes by the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Direct Marketing Commission.
article_snippet.sent: Watchdog will probe 'rogue' data firms who sold Mail's undercover reporters Data .
article_snippet.sent: Two firms exposed by the Mail as selling private information are to be probed by Watchdog.
article_snippet.sent: The Direct Marketing Commission said The Direct Marketing Commission would probe both companies over claims that both companies had breached the rules on the sale of private data.
article_snippet.sent: The Direct Marketing Commission confirmed The Direct Marketing Commission was ‘formally investigating two companies following allegations in the Mail that personal data was shared inappropriately and without the consent of users’.
article_snippet.sent: two companies are already at the centre of a major probe by the Information Commissioner’s Office, which said the sale of such details was ‘on the face of it, a very serious breach of the Data Protection Act’.
article_snippet.sent: The announcement follows calls – led by David Cameron – for a clampdown on companies found guilty of selling personal data without consent.