The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched multiple investigations, including one “into claims that charities are breaking data protection and privacy rules by targeting vulnerable people for cash and ignoring so-called ‘do-not-call’ lists,” The Telegraph reports. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham said, “These seem to be very serious allegations and it looks as if something has seriously gone wrong,” adding, “The question of interest for us is, are charities trading in lists of generous people and are charities taking advantage of people’s generosity or indeed just taking advantage of people full-stop.” The ICO has also “confirmed it will examine a data breach affecting Edinburgh City Council that exposed 13,000 people's email addresses, ITPro reports.
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