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UK Information Commissioner Conducts Raid as Part of Illegal Collision Repair Customer Data Trading Probe

February 24, 2017 By CollisionWeek Editor

A search warrant was executed February 23 at a property in London, as part of an investigation into the illegal access of customer details from collision repair facility operator Nationwide Accident Repairs Services (NARS).

Information Commissioners Office logoThe United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which carried out the search, believes people’s information was unlawfully traded and could be linked to some of them receiving nuisance calls.

“Our experience shows that unscrupulous people access personal data about car accidents to sell it on to marketing firms, who use the details to make nuisance calls,” said Mike Shaw, ICO Enforcement Manager. “This is against the

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