Contact tracing provider fined £8000

18/05/2021 | ICO

The ICO has fined Tested.me Ltd in St Albans £8000 for sending direct marketing emails to 84,000 people who provided their personal data for contact tracing purposes. 

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The Times published a story in October 2020 that revealed contact-tracing data collected by pubs and restaurants being sold on.

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