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How could a web designer break the Data Protection Act (1998) law?

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How could a web designer break the Data Protection Act (1998) law?

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Here’s one way. Steal and sell or leak the names and addresses of a hypothetical list of clients and customers held in some database or other on a server. You see sensitive data like this stored in databases as described, all the time on data driven websites, e.g., www.amazon.co.uk. Then… it’s off to the tower for you young man!