Who Deals With The Misuse Of Personal Information?

[Thunderchild]

I run a small company from home, in fact I am the sole resident of the house and the sole owner and shareholder of the company. I have received from what I assume is yet a further iteration of a work agency and offer of an apprentice, no doubt this agency stands to cream plenty of money off the government. However the guy is utterly incompetent as he has forwarded me the young ladies CV containing her full contact details and address (home address, phone number and email address), just round the corner from me in fact I believe she is the next-door neighbour of a friend of mine. I'm a fairly benign person but I think it is reasonable to expect that this young lady would not want her personal details scattered to the four winds on the Internet (via email). This agency clearly are just bombarding anybody they can think of with offers for cheap labour under the official name of apprenticeship scheme and they can't even be bothered to carry out the basic service that an agency does which is to protect their customers personal details until they need to be disclosed to the person with whom they will eventually do business.

Clearly the guy has done absolutely no research whatsoever as I have absolutely no need for an apprentice and I don't need sales clerks I do engineering design and manufacture.

Whose attention should I bring this to? I'm in half a mind to forward the email onto the young lady and ask if she is happy about this disclosure of her personal details to all and sundry including single men who live just round the corner.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah ICO
he gives a variable service
very good on FOI
often doesnt give a toss tho

yes I would give the young girl her CV
clear breach of confidentiality unless oops she gave consent
and she has to show loss ....

[Thunderchild]

I have forwarded her the agencies email explaining that it is what I got and was clearly sent to numerous people at once on a mailing list and that this is beyond a "need to know" As others have said ICO will probably not listen to me.