Assessing data protection practices of UK tracing agents

Earlier this year a women’s charity raised concerns with us about the alleged actions of a tracing agent – an investigator using various methods to find a person’s current address details.

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https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2023/11/assessing-data-protection-practices-of-uk-tracing-agents/https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2023/11/assessing-data-protection-practices-of-uk-tracing-agents/
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Friday, December 29, 2023
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People, Telephone, Awareness, Family, SafeLives, Woman, Home, Freedom, DPIA, Industry, Environmental Information Regulations 2004, Privacy, Lung compliance, Method, PECR, Information privacy, Organic, National, Telecommunications, Compliance, Technology, ICO, FOIA, EIR, Interim, Social media, Review, Safety, Data wrangling, Information, Home Office, Exercise, Private investigator
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UNITED KINGDOM, UK
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Earlier this year a women’s charity raised concerns with us about the alleged actions of a tracing agent – an investigator using various methods to find a person’s current address details.

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