From Karin Spaink‘s blog:
DPD, the District Psychiatric Service in The Hague – which keeps the psychiatric and criminal records of (former) detainees, dumped a box full of such records on the street, together with ‘other garbage’. A passerby found the box and reported the matter to the Dutch privacy authority (CPB). This was in January 2010. The CPB has now reported about the case and discovered that for years, all medical and criminal files of detainees were stored in an unprotected cellar.
The CPB reminded the Dpt of Justice and DPD that records like these are highly sensitive data and merit strong protection.
references:
CPB report, june 2010
Security.nl, July 6, 2010