Charities fined £138,000 by ICO for abusing data protection laws to target wealthy donors

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Cancer Research UK ranked potential donors based on their wealth

Eleven charities have been fined a total of £138,000 for breaking data privacy rules, building databases of personal data to mine to find the wealthiest potential donors and even sharing that data ...

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