There has been an incident this week where employees of T-Mobile have been caught selling customer data.

On one hand this has shown that there is a thriving market for this kind of data ...

On the other hand, this has also highlighted "interesting issues as under the Data protection Act, it is a criminal offence knowingly or recklessly to obtain or disclose personal data (or to get someone else to do it for you) without the consent of the organisation responsible for that data. ...", as discussed in this article.

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