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UK Company Caught Selling Their Employees' & Job Applicants' PII

Here's an interesting shocking story about some bad...make that VERY BAD...business decisions in the UK to make money by selling employees', and job applicants', personally identifiable information (PII) as a revenue stream...

"Firm 'sold workers' secret data'"

As indicated within the article regarding how much The Consulting Association in Droitwich, Worcs, was allegedly getting paid for the PII...

"Employers paid £3,000 as an annual fee, and £2.20 for individual details, the ICO said. Invoices to construction firms for up to £7,500 were also seized during the raid."

The company allegedly had the PII of 3,213 individuals that they were selling.

An obvious breach of the UK's Data Protection Act, as indicated by the UK Information Commissioner's office.

No fine or action has yet been publicized, and possibly not yet determined.

The 40+ companies who actually paid for the PII may also face charges.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on March 5, 2009 11:48 PM |

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Rebecca Herold, CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for the past two decades. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the world's best privacy experts and on their list of the best privacy consulting firms in both 2007 and 2008. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 13th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.