ICO: UK residents see increase in scam and fraud calls, but trust in data security is unchanged

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Awareness of the importance of data is rising: three-quarters of respondents said an organisation should be held responsible if they lose user data

People in the UK are struggling to control the use of their personal information, despite being aware that protecting their personal data is important. That's according to an annual tracking sur...

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