Industry News: ESG5

2019-04-15

ZDNet:  Pregnancy club Bounty UK Limited has been fined £400,000 for illegally sharing and selling information belonging to 14 million individuals without their explicit consent. The fine was imposed by the UK's data protection watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Personal data relating to pregnancy, new mothers, mothers-to-be, and the birth dates & sex of children were shared. The ICO said the data was collected from those who were "potentially vulnerable."...