German rail operator Deutsche Bahn, still reeling from a spy scandal earlier this year, admitted on Tuesday it had secretly and illegally monitored the health records of some of its employees.
“The Deutsche Bahn management has received indications that the group’s security division collected employees’ illness-related information and circulated it within the group,” the firm said in a statement.
“As the data were not job-specific, they should not have been collected,” the statement said, adding that those responsible were no longer with the company.
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