Security News > 2021 > July > ICO survey on data flouters: 50% say they receive more unwanted calls than before pandemic

The dodgy use of personal data by rogue organisations in fraud and scams continues to be the biggest data protection bugbear for people in the UK, according to research from the Information Commissioners Office.

What's more, organisations with a poor record on keeping people's data safe or not using it properly - such as those who pepper the public with unwanted marketing calls - are likely to find themselves scratched off people's Xmas card list.

Campaigners for the move rally under the slogan "Data saves lives" but opponents to the scheme - which has now been delayed two months until September 1 - have blasted it as the "Biggest data grab in NHS history."

Elsewhere, the ICO-funded research found that half of those people questioned had received more unwanted marketing phone calls - such as those around PPI claims, home improvements or fast food offers - now than they did 12 months ago.

Regardless of the concerns people have, one thing is clear; when it comes to data breaches, companies and organisations should be named and shamed.

Almost three quarters of respondents said that if a company/organisation that they used were affected by a data breach and their information was lost or stolen, the company holding the data should be "Held responsible".

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