Sergiu Gatlan reports:
The London Borough of Newham received a £145,000 monetary penalty from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after leaking the personal information of more than 200 individuals allegedly associated with gangs.
As discovered by an ICO investigation, the personal data of more than 203 alleged gang members was disclosed by a Newham Council employee who emailed the info part of the Gangs Matrix police intelligence database to 44 recipients, in both redacted and unredacted form.
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