Charities fined almost £140,000 for breaking donor privacy rules

Some of Britain's best-known charities have been fined a total of £138,000 for breaking data protection rules to get more money from donors.The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found some charities "wealth screened" donors, targeted new or lapsed donors by piecing together information obtained from other sources and shared information with other charities to create a pool of donor data.The privacy watchdog said that some charities "don't know if the information has been shared one o