Information Commissioner’s Office

[JustKeepSwimming]

Absolutely this. I found one of these online car raffles that was blatently cheating so no one ever won the prize. Had all the evidence and it did not matter who I reported it to, absolutely no one, and I mean no one gave a flying fig. They were absolutely untouchable. It beggard belief.

During the football index scandal, basically a ponzi scheme that was given a licence by the Gambling Commission (when they had no idea how the product worked) they naturally got a lot of victims who were asking for something to be done. Many of them were banned from contacting the GC under 'unreasonable behaviour policy'. You would think it would be 'oh well they are pissed off, probably a bit aggressive', nope they were simply asking why GC doesn't do anything.

[SueEllen]

For what its worth I think the Financial Ombudsman Service is the worst of the bunch, completely incompetent and corrupt. But I am surprised that the open lack of pretence that they are even doing the basics of their job has spread as far as the ICO too. Its completely wild west out there now, with big organisations pretty much allowed to do as they please.

Tax payer is paying a lot of money for these public services which dont deliver even the basics of their remit.

I've actually got results from the FOS.

Though only in my case because the companies involved were probably worried I could go public to help trash their reputations.

[AtW]

Good, ICO should be completely shut down and everybody working there fired.

[andymalory]

Think there is a rule that prior performance can not be taken into account when evaluating current bids. Which is why no matter how tulip Crapita and G4tulip is they will continue to get new contracts.

Not exactly. Poor performance can be taken into account. but it is not as simple as it should be. You need to ask previous customers for confirmation or rely on default notices which don't typically get issued unless the sh*! really hits the fan.