article_snippet: Vulnerable people desperate for cash are then bombarded up to 60 times a day by cold callers and targeted by scammers who have apparently obtained access to the data.
article_snippet: Christopher Woolard, the Financial Conduct Authority’s director of strategy and competition, said: ‘This exploitation of consumers – many of whom are vulnerable – is unacceptable.
article_snippet: ‘Cracking down on this sort of practice is one of our top priorities.
article_snippet: our are currently investigating a number of firms.
article_snippet: Dr Ros Altmann said: ‘Prison sentences and significant fines should be imposed on those who so carelessly profit from sales of such data.
article_snippet: This is a major threat to the British public.
article_snippet: It is clear that data protection is failing and supposed protections are simply not working.
article_snippet: The ICO works constantly to target rogue businesses and individuals that seek to profit from the unscrupulous trade in personal data.
article_snippet: Our will be looking at this information brought to Our by the Daily Mail, consider whether there have been any breaches of the Data Protection Act and what action should be taken.
article_snippet: From today, our stopped our data going everywhere.