UK Prison terms for personal data abuse
Friday, August 18th, 2006Now’s a good opportunity to add your views to the consultation around handing out prison terms to employees who knowingly breach the Data Protection Act - remembering that, while strengthening the law is probably a good idea, the absence of adequate resources for investigating possible breaches and pursuing and then prosecuting those who break the law will simply create yet more red tape for those companies who behave properly anyway, without doing anything meaningful to reduce data abuse.
