Location:Pinsent Masons, 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2FG
Start date:09/10/2025
End date:09/10/2025
Event Organiser:Midlands Fraud Forum (MFF)
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Presentation by Kerry Smith, Investigations Group Manager, ICO. Attendance, from 9am, is free for Midlands Fraud Forum members.
Topic: The price of a line and the unlawful trading of data: An insight into the lucrative world of the trade in unlawfully obtained personal data. Personal data is an extremely valuable commodity which Organised Crime Groups have long recognised, using it to attain benefit in the millions of pounds to the detriment of legitimate businesses and the wider public. This type of criminality is not victimless and can be the bedrock of large scale, complex and long-term frauds. The session provides an oversight of the work undertaken by the ICO’s criminal and financial investigations teams in relation to illegally obtained data, including the factors attributing to the values of data and subsequent risks to victims. This provides an opportunity to reflect on how the work of the ICO may cross-over and support other agencies’ investigations involving data enabled crime.
And Catherine Sankey, Investigations Group Manager, ICO on ICO enforcement in tackling predatory marketing (scam calls and messages targeting vulnerable people). An investigation pulled together intelligence threads and collaborating with other enforcement agencies to disrupt a network targeting the vulnerable through the use of ‘sucker lists’.
