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Powys County Council fined £130,000 for disclosing child protection case details

on 06/12/2011 · No Comments">No Comments · in Data Breach Log

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty of £130,000 to Powys County Council for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act where the details of a child protection case were sent to the wrong recipient. The penalty is the highest that the ICO has served since it received the power in April [...]

Revising publication schemes under sections 19 and 20 of the Freedom of Information Act

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The ICO has launched a consultation on the revision of its model publication scheme, under sections 19 and 20 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). View the consultation document View the consultation document (Welsh) The closing date of this consultation is 21 December 2011.

ICO asks public to ‘Tell Me More’ about what information public authorities should release

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched a consumer campaign aimed at getting the public to offer their views about what information public authorities should proactively release. The ‘Tell Me More’ campaign will run alongside the ICO’s existing consultation on the content of publication schemes – the documents that set out what information a public authority [...]

Rough Guide to Internet Security (beware smart phone malware) – Get Safe Online Week 2011

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The increase in smart phone malware is one of the key threats being highlighted during this year’s annual Get Safe Online Week. At a summit to launch the week, Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, launched a new Rough Guide to Internet Security. The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP comments: More and more people [...]

Housing group emailed workers’ details to wrong address

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A private housing group based in Dorset breached the Data Protection Act by sending the personal data of 200 employees to the wrong email address, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said. In March of this year, an employee of Spectrum Housing Group accidentally emailed a non-secure excel spreadsheet containing employees’ data, including details of their [...]

Council employees’ details were published online

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Dumfries and Galloway Council breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally publishing a spreadsheet containing the names, salaries and dates of birth of nearly 900 current and former employees on their website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The personal information – which was mistakenly disclosed as part of a response to a Freedom [...]

Compulsory audit powers needed for local government, the NHS and the private sector

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Powers to conduct compulsory data protection audits in local government, the health service and the private sector are needed to ensure compliance with the law, the Information Commissioner said today at the 10th annual data protection compliance conference in London. Christopher Graham’s call came as figures showed that the ICO is being blocked from auditing [...]

Action taken over security flaw in online reporting form

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The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) and the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) – its parent organisation – have taken action after the discovery of a security flaw on CEOP’S website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. On 6 April, the ICO received a complaint from an individual who noticed that the [...]

ICO audit finds improvements to Google’s privacy policies

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Google Inc. has taken reasonable steps to improve its privacy policies, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today, following an audit at the company’s London office. The ICO’s audit – which took place in London in July – was agreed as part of the terms of an undertaking that Google signed in November 2010 after [...]