"sensitive" documents found in street, GDPR?

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plot twist the poor estate agent, over work was rushing to a meeting to hopefully close a deal on a property, when suddenly was hit by a car in a hit and run. The estate agent crawling using the last bit of strength to reach these important documents as they blow across the street knowing the GDPR regs he was breaking at this exact moment. Everything goes dark. The estate agent wakes up in hospital finding out that they have been coma for six weeks, to find a few letters beside their bedside...no one is about and the nurses seem busy. With what little strength reaching and opening the letters to see what they are about, the first is a letter from work informing him that due to lost of personal data they have had to let him go. How will I pay the bill I'm still in hospital thank goodness I have my wife *opens second letter* its from his wife who has quit her job, sold all of his possessions and moved away to Cambodia with his best friend. FIN

Wow what a rollercoaster! Hopefully this will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan :p
 
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Lots of different customers

Spoke to ICO who have opened a case

They told me to speak to agent so they can look into clearing up

there are multiple agents of same national company so I called the nearest one

explained what I found

"cant be us as we have secure document disposal"

well you are nearest

"well its not us"

this is address of one of the properties

"oh it is us, thanks, goodbye"
 
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Is easy...

Create an account, just like you did when joining this forum.
Follow as many people as you can find, preferably spam accounts who will retweet whatever you post.
Then post this incident, remembering to accuse the document owners of being racist...


I knew there was a reason I don't use twitter

TBH I did set an account up years ago but have never used it
 
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Lots of different customers

Spoke to ICO who have opened a case

They told me to speak to agent so they can look into clearing up

there are multiple agents of same national company so I called the nearest one

explained what I found

"cant be us as we have secure document disposal"

well you are nearest

"well its not us"

this is address of one of the properties

"oh it is us, thanks, goodbye"

I bet you're glad now you did file a complaint with the ICO.

That's the problem with a lot of these small companies, they don't take data confidentiality serious, and when a member of the public tells them they've found something it's "oh it's not us, can't be us".
 
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I bet you're glad now you did file a complaint with the ICO.

That's the problem with a lot of these small companies, they don't take data confidentiality serious, and when a member of the public tells them they've found something it's "oh it's not us, can't be us".
This, so much this.

I'd forward any correspondence you have with them on to ICO Rotty, they clearly don't care about their customers privacy, only their wallets.

If it wasn't for their attitude I would guess ICO would go down the educational route but they deserve to get fisted tbh.
 
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Make some money from it and report it to a newspaper but don't give your real name, maybe get a reward for handing back that data without getting into the public hands!!


I know what I would do, get an email sent to the company with an offer on the table.
 
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It was a phone call, before I spoke to the branch I had messaged their head office who have now replied and they say their data compliance officer is investigating
 
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It was a phone call, before I spoke to the branch I had messaged their head office who have now replied and they say their data compliance officer is investigating

Bit random that it was from different offices nationally. Makes you wonder if the secure document disposal company is at fault!
 
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Some of these agencies (estate agents and solicitors too) are shocking badly with data security. It's amazing more of them haven't been done over by hackers or shut down yet.

Definitely poo through their letterbox to get the message across.
 
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