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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:01:52 +0000

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By: brianfpennington

brianfpennington — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:12:56 +0000

Hello, it is obviously difficult to give advice remotely because you need to speak to your credit card company and complain but they will be backed by various terms and conditions e.g. you probably accepted that when making a payment from the mobile it was yours, blah, blah, blah. However you do seem to be dealt with badly so I suggest you escalate your complaint and quote both the Data Protection Act and Payment Card Industry Compliance and they might deal with you on a reasonable level.

Good luck

Brian

By: bex83

bex83 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:59:34 +0000

Hi i am new here and in serious need of advice. My credit card provider sent a txt message with my card details and credit state to a friends mobile that i had previously used to make a payment. I have rang the company to complain and there attitude was atrocious, the best they could come up with was to remove the unauthorized number from my file and take off the £24 they were informing me off being over my credit limit. When i said i was not satisfied with this as it had caused me embarrassment and upset by breaching my data and breaking the data protection act, i was told my complaint was being passed up the chain further. I have since had a call from the complaints department saying that no txt was sent to the phone just an automated call. If any one could help on where i stand legally with this and how can this company get away with it as there seems to be no way that i can find at reporting this to some kind of data protection system.

By: brianfpennington

brianfpennington — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:39:31 +0000

Hi, individual compensation is hard to find as it is often “out of court….” but once an organisation is found guilty they struggle to defend against compensation claims.

Brian

By: Babs

Babs — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:49:35 +0000

Excellent article, many thanks!

I am interested in the amounts of compensation though, is there any information to be had on this?

If a person’s complete private data (DoB, social insurance no., address, email, tel no., employment details, etc.) were stolen from a previous employer, resulting in possible identity theft and misuse of said data, what on earth can one expect in compensation? What is one’s complete “life” data worth? Who will pay for the sleepless nights, the stomach ulcers and tension headaches that come with fear of abuse of this data?

And how does one protect oneself from future criminal use of one’s data? Scary, to say the least If the courts go by “show me how much you’ve spent on medical treatment due to this!”, then I guess one’s data isn’t worth much.

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By: Rubbish causes a breach of the Data Protection Act and a £250,000 fine « Brian Pennington

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:58:49 +0000

[...] Who else has the information commissioner caught this year? Find out here. [...]

By: An overview of EU security legislation and the impact of cyber incident reporting « Brian Pennington

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:38:28 +0000

[...] The five quoted incidents are just the tip of the iceberg, as you will find out later in the post, but to give an insight into UK breaches read my post on who the UK’s Information Commissioner has caught this year for breaching the current Data Protection Act here. [...]

By: 65% of businesses do not protect their customers’ private data « Brian Pennington

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:03:01 +0000

[...] For an idea of the scale of the UK’s problem have a look at my post “Who has breached the Data Protection Act in 2012? Find the complete list here“. [...]