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​Bounty fined GBP400,000 in UK for illegal sharing of personal data

( April 12, 2019, 11:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Bounty, a pregnancy and parenting club, has received a 400,000-pound fine for violating the UK's 1998 data-protection rules by sharing the personal information of more than 14 million people. The company passed personal data collected through its website, mobile app and merchandise-pack claim cards to organizations, without clearly explaining that it might do so, the Information Commissioner's Office said today. Bounty shared around 34.4 million records between June 2017 and April 2018 with credit reference and marketing agencies, including Acxiom, Equifax, Indicia and Sky, the ICO said. "Any consent given by these people was clearly not informed," the regulator said. “Such careless data sharing is likely to have caused distress to many people."Statement follows. ...

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