Ian Drury reports on the results of a FOIA investigation by Big Brother Watch:
Bungling councils have lost or wrongly shared the sensitive personal information of tens of thousands of people, a damning report reveals today.
Officials breach data rules at least four times a day, often involving the confidential details – including medical records – of countless adults and children.
The ‘shockingly lax attitudes’ that local authorities show towards protecting private records is exposed in a study by the civil liberties group Big Brother Watch.
Read more on Daily Mail. I don’t see BBW’s report up on their site yet, but will add a link to this post when I find it.
Update: here’s BBW’s report. And there’s already one criticism of it.