The BBC is reporting that the Information Commissioner in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, is calling for tougher privacy laws to tackle the illegal sale of personal data, some of which includes bank account details and phone numbers. And this in a country that already has the toughest privacy laws in Europe. Commissioner Thilo Weichert already has a track record of taking on the big boys - as SWIFT found out - so expect to see real results in this case.
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