{"id":87138,"date":"2018-08-14T07:16:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T07:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/uk-watchdog-fines-broker-140000-for-illegally-selling-data-to-labour-party-2\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:16:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T07:16:52","slug":"uk-watchdog-fines-broker-140000-for-illegally-selling-data-to-labour-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/uk-watchdog-fines-broker-140000-for-illegally-selling-data-to-labour-party-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UK watchdog fines broker \u00a3140,000 for illegally selling data to Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Britains privacy watchdog fined a data broker \u00a3140,000 (\u20ac155,000) on Thursday for illegally collecting and selling personal information to the countrys Labour Party, which used the information to target potential voters during last years general election.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioners Office said Lifecycle Marketing, which runs the Emmas Diary website for expectant mothers, illegally sold information on more than one million people to Experian Marketing Services, a unit of a credit reference agency, for use by the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>The party then used the online data to send targeted mail to mothers living in marginal electoral districts in an effort to convince them to vote Labour, <a href=\"https:\/\/ico.org.uk\/media\/action-weve-taken\/mpns\/2259583\/lifecycle-marketing-mother-and-baby-ltd-mpn-8-august-2018.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the ICO<\/a>. The company did not disclose that peoples information would be used by political parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll organisations involved in political campaigning must use personal information in ways that are transparent, lawful and understood by the U.K. public,\u201d Elizabeth Denham, head of the ICO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relationship between data brokers, political parties and campaigns is complex,\u201d she added. \u201cEven though this company was not directly involved in political campaigning, the democratic process must be transparent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for Emmas Diary and the Labour Party were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Read this next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/walls-close-in-on-jeremy-corbynuk-labour-party\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">A month to save Corbyns Labour<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmas-diary-labour-information-commissioner-office-denham-140000-fine-privacy-data\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Britains privacy watchdog fined a data broker \u00a3140,..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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