" ... and illegal trade of personal data may find themselves subject to ICO action." - up to and including gentle slap on the wrist.
ICO seizes phones and computers in nuisance call scam raids
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has seized computers and phones in its probe into nuisance callers suspected of stealing people's details from car repair centres throughout the UK. The items will now be subject to forensic examination and investigation. Investigators are looking at how the data was stolen, who …
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Friday 9th June 2017 16:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: The ultimate threat
or else I'll tell you to stop doing that again
Possibly, but note this is a criminal investigation, not an ICO civil investigation. They'll need to put a case in front of a court, and a judge will decide any appropriate penalty, which can include leisure time in one Her Maj's residential establishments.
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Saturday 10th June 2017 09:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
ICO is supposed to be "taxpayer neutral" going forward, so they'll have to find a way to fund themselves. It seems logical to me that fines will be the funding source.
Expect fines to be given out more frequently and for them to be significantly increased. Once GDPR officially comes into play later this month, I wouldn't be surprised if ICO's fines were at least an order of magnitude higher in general.
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Sunday 11th June 2017 22:57 GMT Grease Monkey
I got a call from some cowboy about "the accident in the last three years". Couldn't even give me an approximate date or any other details of the accident. Also as my NCD will attest I haven't had an accident in the last three years. Maybe somebody has stolen data from a car repair company, but not the gits who called me.