Oh dear, looks like the communications giant T-Mobile has been a bit too communicative. Today it emerged that staff at T-Mobile have passed data from thousands of it's customers too 3rd party brokers without prior permission, as reported by the BBC.
We can expect several things: One, the Ministry of Justice will get it's teeth into this. Two, some staff of T-Mobile will be charged under the Data Protection Act. Three, the government will get all hot-and-bothered about this and maybe try and react with some extra protections in law.
Will customers get compensation - who knows? One thing for sure is that this is not going to be the last time we see Joe Public's private data up for sale.
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