Data Theft in UK Law

Data are presented on staff dishonesty in the electrical retail sector deriving from a 1991 survey of 55 Dixons stores in the Dixons Stores Group. Two hundred and seventy seven staff were interview...

Purpose: Identity theft is an emerging form of criminal behavior, with complaints about the behavior rising. However, little research has explored the correlates of these complaints, especially sta...

Purpose: This paper aims to study the concept of identity fraud and how these identity thefts can actually lead to financial crime. These crimes which usually were done in the traditional way now h...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumer behaviour as it relates to identity theft and fraud. Design/methodology/approach: Using survey data, this paper models the relationshi...

In an October 18, 2011 report, the Justice Committee called for UK courts to be given greater powers to imprison and fine individuals who breach the Data Protection Act, and asked that the governme...

In this blog post, we look at a recent decision by the UK Court of Appeal and a separate prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”; the UK data protection authority), whic...

Two former employees of T-Mobile have been ordered by a UK court to pay a total of 73,700 GBP (approx. 120,000 USD) for theft of personal data.