To track possible coronavirus infections, the British company Tested.me Ltd implemented digital contact tracing via QR code. However, as investigations by the ICO revealed, the company used the collected contact data for advertising purposes and sent 84,000 emails to data subjects between September and Novemeber 2020.
E-mail data freely accessible
A UK organization that supports the rights of transgender individuals reported a data breach to the ICO data protection authority on June 17, 2019. The Authority then immediately started the investigation and found out that e-mails from 550 affected persons, including their name, email address and mental health or sexual orientation information, were freely accessible… […]
11 million unwanted calls
After receiving a total of 316 complaints against the consulting firm Brazier Consulting Services Ltd, the UK’s data protection authority ICO was able to seize more than 11 million unlawfully made calls as part of its investigation. In some cases, the persons concerned continued to be called even after they had expressly objected. Furthermore, the… […]