Should companies that lose confidential employee data face harsher punishment?

Earlier this week it was revealed that Marks and Spencers had become the latest in a long line of companies to lose employee data.

It emerged that Marks and Spencers had been forced to write to 26,000 employees telling them they may be at risk of identity fraud, after a laptop containing salary details, addresses, dates of birth, and National Insurance and phone numbers of staff, was stolen from a printing firm on 18 April.

The printers were given the laptop with the staff details so it c... (453 more words)

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