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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/01/leave-eu-arron-banks-insurance-company-fined-data-breaches-information-commissioner-audit
The information commissioner has launched an audit into Leave.EU and the insurance company owned by the campaign’s key financial backer, Arron Banks, after fining the organisations a total of £120,000 for data protection violations during the EU referendum campaign.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced in November that it intended to fine the two companies, which it determined were closely linked, with “ineffective” systems for segregating the data of insurance customers from that of political subscribers.
Leave.EU was fined £15,000 for using Eldon Insurance customers’ details unlawfully to send almost 300,000 political marketing messages, and a further £45,000 for its part in sending an Eldon marketing campaign to political subscribers. Eldon was fined £60,000 for the latter violation.
The fine for Leave.EU’s marketing campaign was £15,000 less than the ICO had initially proposed, after the regulator took account of representations made by the company. One mitigating factor was that the ICO had not received any complaints about the contravention, it said.
The referendum campaign sent more than 1m emails to subscribers that contained a banner advertising 10% off insurance at an Eldon brand, GoSkippy. More seriously, it sent almost 50,000 emails out after the referendum, titled “Skippy Saves the Day”, again offering a 10% discount. The campaign negligently disobeyed electronic marketing regulations in doing so, the ICO found.
Elizabeth Denham, the commissioner, said: “It is deeply concerning that sensitive personal data gathered for political purposes was later used for insurance purposes, and vice versa. It should never have happened.
“We have been told both organisations have made improvements and learned from these events. But the ICO will now audit the organisations to determine how they are using customers’ personal information.”
The ICO will begin a full audit of Eldon and Leave.EU’s joint offices, staff and records, looking for evidence of whether or not the two companies followed data protection guidelines in processing personal information, how they trained staff and what policies and procedures they had in place.
The results of that audit, which will include interviewing the directors and staff, will be made public. The ICO noted “it is a criminal offence to obstruct an ICO audit or destroy information covered by it”.
Leave.EU is already being investigated by the National Crime Agency over a multimillion-pound donation the Electoral Commission believes came from Rock Holdings, one of Banks’s companies that is based in the Isle of Man, and thus not legally allowed to participate in UK elections.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/01/leave-eu-arron-banks-insurance-company-fined-data-breaches-information-commissioner-audit
The information commissioner has launched an audit into Leave.EU and the insurance company owned by the campaign’s key financial backer, Arron Banks, after fining the organisations a total of £120,000 for data protection violations during the EU referendum campaign.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced in November that it intended to fine the two companies, which it determined were closely linked, with “ineffective” systems for segregating the data of insurance customers from that of political subscribers.
Leave.EU was fined £15,000 for using Eldon Insurance customers’ details unlawfully to send almost 300,000 political marketing messages, and a further £45,000 for its part in sending an Eldon marketing campaign to political subscribers. Eldon was fined £60,000 for the latter violation.
The fine for Leave.EU’s marketing campaign was £15,000 less than the ICO had initially proposed, after the regulator took account of representations made by the company. One mitigating factor was that the ICO had not received any complaints about the contravention, it said.
The referendum campaign sent more than 1m emails to subscribers that contained a banner advertising 10% off insurance at an Eldon brand, GoSkippy. More seriously, it sent almost 50,000 emails out after the referendum, titled “Skippy Saves the Day”, again offering a 10% discount. The campaign negligently disobeyed electronic marketing regulations in doing so, the ICO found.
Elizabeth Denham, the commissioner, said: “It is deeply concerning that sensitive personal data gathered for political purposes was later used for insurance purposes, and vice versa. It should never have happened.
“We have been told both organisations have made improvements and learned from these events. But the ICO will now audit the organisations to determine how they are using customers’ personal information.”
The ICO will begin a full audit of Eldon and Leave.EU’s joint offices, staff and records, looking for evidence of whether or not the two companies followed data protection guidelines in processing personal information, how they trained staff and what policies and procedures they had in place.
The results of that audit, which will include interviewing the directors and staff, will be made public. The ICO noted “it is a criminal offence to obstruct an ICO audit or destroy information covered by it”.
Leave.EU is already being investigated by the National Crime Agency over a multimillion-pound donation the Electoral Commission believes came from Rock Holdings, one of Banks’s companies that is based in the Isle of Man, and thus not legally allowed to participate in UK elections.
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will they investigate the governments 9 million spent on remain or all the other money and efforts to destroy brexit and all the foreign interventions
just though I would mention them sorry |
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No...because it was not illegal.....Eldon an Leave.EU broke the law !
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(if you don't mean "sorry'....don't say it....btw)
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hth
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Just comes across as the government machine victimising Banks after losing,despite bullying and fake news about Project fear that turned out to be nowt.
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don't worry treetop, the data protection act (and all the other consumer legislation) will be history in post brexit jacob rees mogg world.
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The important thing is that the Leave Vote is seen as tainted - bought by criminalit
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Investigators will find where the £8 million came from then the **** will hit the fan !
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Years later, The Leopard. We all know that it stinks but..
We have to stop Brexit before the end of March. |
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Stopping Brexit would be unwise,a brief period of pleasure but eternal mistrust of our democracy after that.
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By a an ageing 30% ?
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Hi Leops.
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Tick tock UB. Not long now and you can wind your neck in.
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Perhaps.
Or maybe the Brexit-mongers slogan "suck it up" will return to haunt them. |
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Hi, EK....just went out and came back...hows things?
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Brexit will not happen.....too many good people against it....and a majority now !
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JRM on LBC talking about compromise.
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Yes... listening
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Top lad is JRM
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The majority of callers are telling Jacob Rees-Mogg to keep up the resistance.
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Yup. Leavers far outnumbering the remoanians - yet again
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But they reckon he is going soft.
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A majority against Brexit? Now where have I heard that before?
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No 2016 Leaver needs to change his mind - that would be like asking a dog to read a compass - all we ask is that the choice is put back to the electorate, in the stark light of available options in 2019.
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Many were saying they understood how difficult his position was but wanted him to persist with his course of action.
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LBC choose the callers though !
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They are pro-leave.
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Amuses me how often Remainers imply the ageing 30% will die off leaving a majority for Remain. As a lad I was on the left and voted on sentiment but as I grew older my experience and intelligence made me see things in a better light. I am quite sure that the 40% young people that voted Leave will increase accordingly,particularly after witnessing the disgraceful treatment the EU has tried to give UK.
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And, uh, don't LBC employ JRM?
I may be wrong. |
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Interesting point, treetop.
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Well, most normal people anyway
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Of course some people, like biscuits,never grow up to full maturity.
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As Churchill famously said "Any man who wants to remain at 20 believes Channel 4 news, any man who wants to remain at 40 has ho head".
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Touché Oscar.
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He sure is Trilby, could with a few more of his type in parliament.
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You mean more, privileged millionaires, who couldn't give a shlt about people like you ?
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He most certainly talks far more sense than the vast majority of that rabble across the chamber, Aka. I would imagine that even the dimmest of socialists would agree. Well, when (if?) they eventually grow up at least.
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