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"If you only knew the power of the dark side..."

In ‘Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back’, Darth Vader tried to convince Luke Skywalker that success could be achieved by choosing the dark side. When the same attitude is taken with people’s personal information, we’ll step in.

Over the past 40 years we’ve taken action against companies making nuisance calls about mis-sold PPI, organisations with ineffective IT security that has led to cyber attacks and even one company which kept records on contract workers and prevented them from getting work. 

An out of focus image of a woman in the kitchen. She's leaning to get a mug from a cupboard. Closer to the camera you can see an Alexa smart speaker. It’s light is shining – showing that it’s listening and ready to answer the woman’s questions as she does other tasks. A person is holding a set of index cards. The index card lists an electrician, named Joe Smith. It has his name, age, whether he is a member of union and a recommendation on whether this person should be hired or not.

A woman points a remote at the TV. On the screen, there's an FCA advert reminding people of the deadline to claim for PPI refunds. There is a robot Arnold Schwarzenegger head in the corner of the advert, about to roll across towards the centre of the screen. A man is typing at an old laptop. The desktop background on the screen is the classic windows background of rolling hills. However, over the top there’s a dark warning message. A black box has appeared and in a bright red robotic font the message “You have been hacked.” A woman has her feet up on a table. She’s leaning her feet on a pile of gardening magazines. She’s wearing blue Adidas trainers but added over the trainers are a pair of novelty grass aerator shoes. The shoes are attached to the bottom of the trainers and have large thick metal spikes out the bottom.

A man looks out of the window. He's wearing a dark blue ICO enforcement jacket.A pile of newspapers. On the top of the pile is edition number 8674 of the News of the World. The front page reads “Thank you and Goodbye”. This is the last ever edition of the News of the World. At the top of the page you can see that the news of the world existed from 1843 to 2011.