Deutsche Telekom Tightens Data-Privacy Regulations

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:16:09 +0000
AHN Staff

Berlin, Germany (AHN) - Following the discovery that personal information of 17 million Deutsche Telekom mobile phone subscribers have been missing, the largest German telco promised to tighten data-security regulations.

But it turned out the data made up of private numbers of politicians and celebrities, cellular phone numbers, addresses, birthdays and email addresses, were acquired by a private firm two years ago.

To address these breaches in privacy, the company will appoint a seventh board member who will be mainly responsible for corporate compliance and legal issues. Among the tasks of the new board member would be to come up with privacy reports every six months.

In addition to this, Telekom chief executive Rene Obermann said that if in the future there would be another incident of data privacy violation, the public will be informed on a dedicated portal. "In the race against data theft, we want to be at least one step ahead at all times," Obermann said, quoted by Deutsche Welle.

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