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12.08.2008 always ask how come these people again and again to their own secret code, because you have become accustomed. Because the answer is simple: The contact appeared to have landed in any address database. By a careless checking for competitions, by unreliable employee of a company whose customer you are. This is annoying, as long as it remains in telephone and direct mail attacks, but relatively harmless.

The scandal that is now brewing in Germany seems however to be of a different caliber. There, the Consumer Association of Schleswig-Holstein revealed on Tuesday that a disc containing sensitive Contact details of 17,000 German citizens have been illegally sold to third parties. In the data sets were found not only names, birth dates, addresses and telephone numbers, but the account numbers of those affected.

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Now suppose the privacy advocates that the bank accounts had been misused for fraudulent purposes. Because data is a "sought-after estate on the black market," said Thilo Weichert, head of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection in Schleswig-Holstein. Via telephone were the supposed lottery companies work off the records and try to list everyone on the contracts . Foist

went In that case, the alleged fraudsters obviously a step further. By several accounts were illegally debited money, although the parties "unequivocally rejected any participation in a game of chance," said the spokesman for the Consumer Centre Schleswig-Holstein, Thomas Hagen. Weichert sees in this case, only the tip of the iceberg. "We fear that behind every case put hundreds of other cases where people do not report. They are just as affected and may also be ripped off, "said Weichert. Where are the sensitive information is as yet unclear.

"People do not care" In Austria, a comparable case is officially unknown, Hans Zeger, president of the Argentina data shows, in conversation with the "press" but little surprise. Again and again, firms without permission in Austria DVDs get sent tens of thousands of records, he explained. also complaints from citizens who complain about unwanted callers or suspicious account activity, were known to him. The most pressing problem of privacy advocates, however, locates in the apparent indifference of the public towards the issue itself. "Basically, this is the People do not care, "he says, and confirms the Austrians a sloppy handling of their data. This is the risk that sensitive information from getting to unauthorized persons is greater now than ever. previously had any official or employees (for weight reasons), only the relevant act here, with every employee now de facto the entire customer base on the USB stick with him. Zeger fears that the "norm" could be that such large amounts of data loss or theft out to third.

Here there are ways to do something about it, he says. For example one more stringent regulation dessen, auf welche Daten einzelne Mitarbeiter tatsächlich Zugriff haben, die Gefahr bereits minimieren. Als Mindestmaßnahme fordert Zeger jedoch eine Verständigungspflicht für den Fall, dass sensible Informationen verloren gehen. Dann könnten sich die Betroffenen zumindest darauf einstellen, dass sie mit unerwünschten Anrufen oder unüblichen Abbuchungen rechnen müssen.

("Die Presse", Print-Ausgabe, 13.08.2008)