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T-Mobile staff sold millions of records of users to third parties. This was confirmed after the personal data was sold to other phone companies which had called those costumers whose contract was expired with T-Mobile. This was done without the knowledge of the phone company. The boards of directors from T-Mobile are really concerned and are demanding a prison sentence for those who sold the personal data. This is considering a trade of illegal personal data.
The responsible companies for investigation such as, Orange, Vodafone, and Virgin said that they were not responsible for the data, but T-Mobile confirmed they were. A search has begun to find the possible suspects of the act, including interviews to employees and warrants to enter premises.
The Ministry of Justice is consulting the possible penalties that the responsible of trading personal data will have. The T-Mobile speaker demands that: “This is not just about mobile phone companies. It's about private investigators, it's about blagging information from databases for use to put the frighteners on witnesses, attempt to knobble juries, pursue 'nasty neighbor' disputes, interfere in the family courts, difficult divorce settlements. Personal data has value and there are people out there exploiting it."
The speaker also added that the sale of data should be kept as a secret because they don’t want any criminal persecutions involved.
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What would happen if this data was sold to criminals as well? What will happen with that sensitive information that was sold to other phone comapnies without the person's permission? What other penalties could be propose for those who sold the data?
ResponderEliminarI would love to know why T-mobile sold thousands of personal informatino to the third parties. Was that done on purpose or by accident? Of course if the data was sold to criminals, then it is really bad, your information is violated. but what specifically was sold? Also I would like to know who is going to be punished mainly; the person who sold the information, or the person who ordered the workers to do it (if someone did), or the whole company?
ResponderEliminarMy real curiosity to what is being discussed in the article is what was the real interest of the t-mobile employees that sold the information? Furthermore, in my opinion it could have been a monetary thing e that they were doing just to win some bucks, but there could have been other reasons. Moreover, the people who should be as liable or more than those employees who sold the information should be those who bought it. It would be like if someone steals a bank and the police only take responsible the employees of the bank who sold information or were accomplices of the acts and not the real thieves.
ResponderEliminarCompany's should enforce ethic work values in general to their employees. The law should be explicit and cover all aspects of privacy to protect it.
ResponderEliminarI agree with Leon because the main interest of the staff who sold the records is not clear. Most likely it was to make some money off these third parties they sold them to. But, regarding to the sold information which was a definite privacy violation on behalf of the staff of T-mobile.
ResponderEliminarIf the data was sold to criminals then an even higher risk on the customers, therefore could become potential targets.
With respect to this same issue but with other points of view I don’t
ResponderEliminarthink that those employees that sold the information should be charged by the court of justice to a prison sentence. I think it is a bit
extreme the measures that being planned to be taken. And I really
doubt the fact they were stealing the information to sell it to
thieves but just to the competitors. In order to be fair the
information that was passed between them should be what determines
harsh they should be charged. Possibly the information was not that
personal and didn’t put at risk the privacy of people.