[Gllug] data protection & spamming

[Benedikt Heinen]

What laws are there in the UK, dealing with spamming?

More specifically, what can I do against 2 companies who either handed out 
my address to spammers; or did not protect my data well enough to prevent 
it from getting into a spammer's hands?    (Two relatively well-known 
companies - one dealing with financial information; one a broker).

Since about 8 weeks I've been receiving spam (fittingly mostly - stock 
pump&dump scams), which weren't sent BY them, but it's clear that it's 
their fault I even get these spams. I've asked both for explanations on 
how this came to be, but am yet to receive a good response from them (one 
better than "we're investigating the issue").

Apart from, obviously, stopping to deal with those companies - is there 
anything else I can / should do?



Benedikt

   ALLIANCE, n.  In international politics, the union of two thieves who
     have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that
     they cannot separately plunder a third.
 			(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)
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