Today I received spam addressed to equifax@mydomain . Now, it was the same address I gave to Equifax UK. So clearly they have sold my info to some unscrupulous spammers.
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Explain to them that you haven`t (nor will you) give your permission for your personal details to be passed around, and that you know its them who "leaked" the address because you personalise the email address handed to any company.
Ask them to get their Data Controller to contact you direct to explain what the hell they`re playing at.
Ask them to notify any company they have passed it to without your permission to remove it from their databases - also contact the third parties direct to ask them to verify the source of their information (you already know where it came from, but it helps focus their minds to the issue of misappropriated data too).
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AFAIK none of the standard exemptions would apply to passing your data around in this way
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While you`re at it, check whether the third party is registered under the data protection act... Check email headers carefully, as you may find the third party uses someone other than themselves to process the mail for them - which could be someone else again who has been passed your information without permission.
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If they`re passing data to a firm not registered to hold data they may be leaving themselves open to a few angles of attack - possibly under principles 1, 2, 6 & 7 (if not more):
1) fairly and lawfully processed
2) processed for limited purposes
6) processed in line with your rights
7) secure
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I've recently had those same two spams sent to an email address which I had only given to my now defunct electricity supplier, Zest4. Now that I come to check, another junk email was sent to that address on 4th January 2006: "Hello, John asked me to send out the new website template, I have uploaded the initial design here"...
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