Laura Proto reports:
The personal details of students at a fee-paying independent school have been shared online in a “serious breach” of data protection that could fall foul of the law.
The Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating after unique pupil numbers (UPN), full names, year groups and houses of 62 students at Harrodian School, which costs £5,669-a-term, were left in a spreadsheet uploaded to Google’s product forum.
The data was uploaded on November 20, 2013, by a user called “OurTom”, asking for help using Microsoft Excel pivot table filters, but was only reported last week.
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