Today’s reminder of the need to control and regularly audit employee access to personal information comes to us from Erin Maguire in Scotland:
A FORMER member of Police Scotland staff is due to stand trial after she denied 44 charges of illegally accessing the personal data of dozens of people over a period spanning four years.
Joanna Miller, 31, is alleged to have breached the Data Protection Act on several occasions between November 2020 and July 2023.
Almost all the alleged offences are said to have taken place at an address in Gourock.
She is charged with knowingly or recklessly obtaining information without the consent of a data controller by accessing Police Scotland’s Crime Management System ‘without a legitimate policing purpose’.
Read more at Greenock Telegraph.