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Irish Credit Unions Hire Tracing Agents to Steal Private Customer Data

18
Aug
2014

A journalistic investigation discovered that credit unions in Ireland contracted the services of private investigators to retrieve personal information about their customers.

Also known as tracing agents, the private investigators resorted to false identities to obtain the private details from state entities, Department of Social Protection being among them.

According to the Irish Independent, who conducted the investigation, the names of no less than 468 customers owing money to credit unio…

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