{"id":897,"date":"2007-02-11T00:51:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T17:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=897"},"modified":"2007-02-11T00:51:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-10T17:51:32","slug":"uk-data-thieves-face-two-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/uk-data-thieves-face-two-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. data thieves face two years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/U.K.+data+thieves+face+two+years+in+prison\/2100-1029_3-6157219.html?tag=alert\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Individuals who sell or deliberately misuse others&#8217; personal data in the U.K. could now face a penalty of up to two years in prison.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The previous penalty stipulated for the charge in the Data Protection Act 1998 was a fine. Now data thieves risk up to six months in prison for a summary conviction, while for a conviction on indictment, they could get up to two years, the U.K. Department for Constitutional Affairs said Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more info click here\u00c2\u00a0 Individuals who sell or deliberately misuse others&#8217; personal data in the U.K. could now face a penalty of up to two years in prison. The previous penalty stipulated for the charge in the Data Protection Act 1998 was a fine. Now data thieves risk up to six months in prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-scams-and-hoaxes","category-spam","category-spyware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}