Русская версияIn Germany data privacy advocates and police are calling for
tighter legislation after a series of disclosures about illegal
trading in electronic information.
The German consumers' federation
says for 850 euros it was able to buy data on six million citizens
in a sham Internet transaction, including four million bank account
listings. It says data abuse is far more widespread than assumed.
German NDR public broadcasting says a CD containing 130,000 illegal
listings from call centres has been discovered in Kiel. The
chairman of parliament's interior affairs committee Sebastian
Edathy says he will call crisis talks to put a stop to what he
called blatant abuses. German federal data protection commissioner
Peter Schaar says the cases are tip of the iceberg. He says better
data privacy safeguards must be written into Germany's
constitution.
(Deutsche Welle)
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