A bank worker who breached the Data Protection Act should have been jailed, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham. The wife of a man on trial for an assault was fined for looking at the victim's personal details repeatedly, BBC News reports. Graham has called for custodial sentences for such offenses, and recently told the Commons Justice Committee that evidence shows that such blagging occurs routinely in financial services, debt collection and claims management companies, among others, and current penalties are "no deterrent." Graham also voiced his concern that an inquiry into media practices would delay efforts to increase penalties. 
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