Rogue Employees Sell World Cup Fans' Passport Data 128
An anonymous reader writes "Reports are coming in that the Information Commissioner's Office has started investigating FIFA, the world football governing body, over allegations that details of thousands of World Cup fans' — including their passport data — were accessed by one or more members of staff and then sold on the black market. It is alleged that the details of more than 35,000 English fans — who visited Germany for the 2006 World Cup — had their passport and allied data sold to ticket touts for marketing purposes."
Make the punishment fit the crime (Score:5, Funny)
When they catch the people who did this, they should be forced to listen to those vuvuzelas at high volume until their ears bleed. That'll teach 'em.
Re:FUD...? (Score:2, Funny)
Hippocrates much
Re:Make the punishment fit the crime (Score:2, Funny)
Probably to ensure that known violent football hooligans do not get tickets? I seem to recall reading some time ago that some of these violent hooligans were flat out banned from traveling to, let alone attending football games because their primary intent is to get drunk and brawl with rivals. And by brawl I don't mean a couple of drunks engaging in fisticuffs but mass fighting on a scale that we in the U.S. would call a riot.
That's b/c if any fight gets larger than a few people here in the U.S. a gun will almost always become involved.