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Changes to data protection laws ‘will give company bosses the shivers’

business.timesonline.co.uk

MPs are considering changes to the law that would make chief executives directly responsible for safeguarding the public’s personal data and make the improper or careless treatment of personal information a criminal offence.

The toughening of data laws, which is likely to be fiercely opposed by companies that deal with large amounts of personal data, such as banks, search engines and telecoms groups, is likely to follow a presentation by Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, to the Justice Committee of the House of Commons.

His call for radical changes to data law has been strengthened by the recent HM Revenue & Customs data breach, in which details of 25 million Britons were lost in the post.

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