Former UK tracing agent fined for illegally obtaining personal data

The agent used voice changing software to impersonate people in order to obtain their private information from organizations.

Michael Isaacs, a former tracing agent, has plead guilty and will be fined for illegally obtaining personal information to check if customers of the high street bank Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) could repay their debts.

Isaacs, who was the sole director of the tracing agent company Datasearch Services Limited,

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