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UK: Home addresses of Elton John, Gabby Logan, Nadiya Hussain and every other recipient on New Year’s Honours list – including senior police and anti-terrorism officials – are accidentally published by the Cabinet Office

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Dissent

Oops.

Ryan Fahey reports:

The Cabinet Office uploaded the home and work addresses of more than 1,000 recipients of New Years’ Honours, including Elton John, Ben Stokes, Iain Duncan Smith and TV chef Nadiya Hussain.

The work and home addresses of counter-terrorism officials, senior police and Ministry of Defence (MoD) staff were also included in the reams of personal data uploaded to a government website yesterday.

Read more on Daily Mail.

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