‘Blagger’s manual’ leaked: UK authorities concealed private investigators’ tactics.
One of the Britain’s leading law enforcement bureaus has known about but ignored massive misconduct and corruption for over a decade by private investigators who use illegal surveillance techniques for the benefit of financial services sector.
An unpublished report by the Benefits Agency and Inland Revenue Data project (BAIRD), obtained by the Independent, exposes the extent of private data trading market in the UK.
Part of the report includes a so-called “blaggers manual,” that was discovered during an Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) raid in 2001, as part of BAIRD investigation, and has been in the possession of the authorities since then.
The manual revealed the methods and best practices which “blaggers” use to extract personal data. Just one of the tactics used by private spooks hired by insurance companies, finance firms and solicitors, resulted in “hundreds of thousands” of fake calls having been made to get hold of private information from government agencies such as the NHS, Customs & Excise and Social Security.
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