Snoop
Closing the account does not close the file. Money-laundering and tax rules keep your identity and transaction records for years, and a permission to share your data wherever the law allows covers much of the rest. The holds set by statute are the ones no request can move.
Reported incidents
Fined £500,000 over UK records caught in its US parent's 2017 breach
2018-09-20 via Equifax UKThe Information Commissioner's Office fined Equifax Ltd £500,000, the most allowed under the Data Protection Act 1998, over the 2017 attack on its US parent. Up to 15 million UK records were held on the US systems the attackers reached between May and July 2017. The ICO found Equifax Ltd broke five of the Act's eight principles: it kept UK data longer than needed, had no legal basis to move it to the US and did not secure it. The UK data included names, dates of birth and phone numbers, and for about 20,000 people driving licence numbers. Equifax said it was disappointed in the findings.
People affected typically ask Snoop to confirm whether their information was included, and which categories.
The verified route
Where data goes
What Snoop likely holds
What banks typically hold about you, from our industry research, the most sensitive first.
Pick a folder to see where it goes.
Most sensitive
Sensitive
Everyday
Where it goes
Companies under one owner commonly share data with the parent and with each other. The group can hold more about you than Snoop does alone.
On Snoop's behalf
They handle your data on Snoop's instructions. A request to Snoop should reach them.
Inferred services
Services banks typically use.
Get their own copy
A request to Snoop doesn't reach them. Each needs its own, and some keep records under a legal duty.
Inferred practices
What banks typically do with your data, from our industry research.
DÆTRAX is a personal data accountability ledger: a dated record of which companies hold your personal data, what you asked them to do about it, and what they claimed in reply.