article_snippet: The revelations come amid a growing outcry over the Mail’s reporting on how sensitive medical and financial data is being sold to conmen and criminals.
article_snippet: Following a major investigation, the Mail’s this week revealed how financial details of thousands of people – including details of people incomes, investments and pension pots – were being sold for as little as 5p to cold callers and fraudsters.
article_snippet: That is only stated in the small print of the website’s privacy policy.
article_snippet: The Mail’s undercover team contacted Data Bubble, which is run by Mrs Clayton, and found The Mail’s undercover team selling sensitive pension details for as little as 19p .
article_snippet: The Mail’s revelations on the sale of medical and financial data have sparked a major inquiry by the office of the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham.
article_snippet: Nick Sayer, a director of B2C Data, offered to sell details of 15,000 people to undercover reporters in a Mail expose this week .
article_snippet: What the Daily Mail team appear to have discovered is that there’s a nice little trade going between different commercial companies where our personal info has value to others.
article_snippet: This type of data processing for companies by companies by their agencies agencies is normal business practice.
highlights_snippet: Names, addresses and dates of birth among information sold off to firms .
  
highlights_snippet: Comes amid outcry over medical and financial data being sold to conmen .
  
highlights_snippet: Payday loan brokers are passing on the financial details of vulnerable people who have been refused cash – leading to Payday loan brokers being targeted by conmen; .
  
highlights_snippet: Schools are buying information on teenagers’ parents from a data firm already exposed for selling medical details; .
  
highlights_snippet: The Department for Business paid an unscrupulous data firm up to £15,000 in public money to help them target small business owners.