The Information Commissioner's Press Release from yesterday is worth a look. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill was to have contained a clause introducing prison sentences for those convicted of trafficking illegally in personal data; that clause has apparently been watered down to the point where the Justice Secretary "will be able to introduce prison sentences if illegal activity continues"... though in the meantime the penalty will continue to be a financial one. Given that, in the same press release, the ICO cites some of the kinds of trafficking which it has exposed over the last two years or more, one has to wonder what further activity the Justice Secretary is waiting for.
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