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Blacklisting - ICO demands powers to inspect firms' data

  • News
  • Date: 02 December 2009
The Information Commissioner's Office has demanded new powers to carry out spot-checks on private companies to verify their data handling processes. The...

Information Commissioner raids anti-union blacklisting firm

  • Photo Story
  • Date: 05 June 2009
The Office of the Information Commissioner's made an unprecedented raid on The Consulting Association, which ran an illegal blacklisting database. Construction workers suspected of union activites were barred from work.

ICO closes down illegal blacklist database

  • News analysis
  • Date: 02 June 2009
A 30-year covert operation to build a database in Droitwich blacklisting union activists in the construction industry has come to its end, following investigations by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Unions press building contractors to pledge not to use blacklist databases

  • News
  • Date: 28 May 2009
Unions are pressing construction firms to make a pledge not to use blacklists against workers.

Man pleads guilty to running illegal blacklist database

  • News
  • Date: 27 May 2009
A man has pleaded guilty to running a covert database containing personal information used to blacklist more than 3,000 construction workers.
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