UK: Tesco call centre worker fined over customer data breach
So what do you think the penalty/fine should be for an employee wilfully emailing themselves customer data that they had no business copying and taking? Jail time? A monetary penalty? Community service? Keep in mind that the defendant had to return from Lithuania to be sentenced. Sounds serious, right?
BBC reports that Thomas Wengierow, 47, who had admitted a charge under the Data Protection Act committed when he worked at the company’s Baird Avenue centre in Dundee, has been fined £230.
Ummm….?
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