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    Home Office contractor collecting data on UK citizens while checking migrants’ finances



    Credit reporting firm Equifax accidentally sends email to a charity that suggests it has data on ‘hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting Britons’The Home Office has been accused of collecting data on “hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting British citizens” while conducting financial checks on migrants.A report by a private contractor for a routine immigration application was mistakenly sent to a charity by a government official, and contained information on more than 260 people including their names, dates of birth and electoral roll data. Continue reading…



    Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/23/home-office-contractor-collecting-data-on-uk-citizens-while-checking-migrants-finances

    Author : Lizzie Dearden

    Publish date : 2025-02-23 10:00:00

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