{"id":936349,"date":"2025-06-04T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=936349"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T05:14:39","slug":"data-privacy-sales-agents-malicious-behaviour-costs-vodafone-a-massive-51-3-million-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/04\/data-privacy-sales-agents-malicious-behaviour-costs-vodafone-a-massive-51-3-million-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Data privacy: Sales agent\u2019s \u2018malicious behaviour\u2019 costs Vodafone a massive $51.3 million fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Vodafone Group Plc was hit by a record \u20ac45 million ($51.3 million) data privacy fine in Germany over \u201cmalicious behavior\u201d by third-party sales agents.<\/p>\n<p>The actions of partner agencies that broker contracts to customers on behalf of Vodafone led to fraud, including fictitious contracts or term changes at the expense of clients, Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Germany\u2019s federal data protection commissioner, said in a statement Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212; Vodafone Group Plc was hit by a record \u20ac45 million ($51.3 million) data privacy fine in Germany over \u201cmalicious behavior\u201d by third-party sales agents. The actions of partner agencies that broker contracts to customers on behalf of Vodafone led to fraud, including fictitious contracts or term changes at the expense of clients, Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, Germany\u2019s federal data protection commissioner, said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}