The Information Commissioner’s Office is going to investigate the charity sector over concerns as to whether charities are buying and selling personal data in conformance with the Data Protection Act. This follows a report that an 87-year-old man was conned out of thousands of pounds after his data had been passed on illegally. Samuel Rae’s details were passed on hundreds of times after he had failed to tick a box in a lifestyle survey in 1994. It is believed that Mr Rae lost £35,000 as a result. The Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said: “The DPA is very clear – the first principle is that your data must be processed fairly and lawfully… There is no consent to sell his data years afterwards… We have got to get to the bottom of how this data was passed on.”
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