The RSPCA and the British Heart Foundation have been fined for secretly ‘wealth-screening’ millions of donors so they could target them for more money.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham fined the RSPCA £25,000 and the BHF £18,000 after an investigation found they hired wealth management companies to analyse the financial status of supporters.
The two charities also traced and targeted new or lapsed donors by piecing together personal information from other sources, and traded supporters’ personal details with other charities to create a massive pool of donor data for sale.
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