A police community support officer has been fined £2,000 for unlawfully accessing information on Metropolitan Police databases. Thomas Childs, 22, who has resigned from his post in Hackney, east London, admitted seven counts of breaching the Data Protection Act. At Westminster Magistrates’ Court he also admitted attempting to obtain information involving personal data. Read more…
Category: Non-U.S.
UK: Birmingham school improves data protection
Waseley Hills High School and Sixth Form Centre in Birmingham has taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act after the theft of personal data of over 1,000 pupils and staff. The school’s previous Headteacher, Mr David Thurburton, informed the ICO of the theft of…
UK: Previous cases of missing data
In the wake of another breach involving the Ministry of Defence (not listed on this site as it is not clear whether it involved personally identifiable information), the BBC has published a recap of other breaches.
UK: EPPING FOREST: Fraud fears after council blunder
Here’s another breach reported last month in the U.K., reported by Daniel Binns: An embarrassing blunder by the district council has led to confidential information about men applying for taxi licences being published on its website, in a move which the Government says could put them at risk of identity theft. National insurance numbers, addresses,…
UK: Action taken after tenants’ personal files go missing
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found the Orbit Heart of England Housing Association to be in breach of the Data Protection Act after 57 paper files containing personal data went missing during an office move. Forty-two of the files were recovered in full, but 15 which contain a significant amount of personal data relating…
Ca: Alberta health board cleared in records breach
Because we don’t have a privacy commissioner who actually — gasp — investigates breaches and issues findings, and all we have is HHS which doesn’t publish its findings and leaves us generally in the dark, this report out of Canada is especially interesting. The Alberta privacy commissioner’s office has found that the province’s health board…