From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The London Borough of Barnet has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 for losing paper records containing highly sensitive and confidential information, including the names, addresses, dates of birth and details of the sexual activities of 15 vulnerable children or young people. The loss occurred when a social worker took the…
Category: Breaches
Wife-killer Joe O’Reilly’s lover gets €75k in privacy case
Tim Healy reports: A breach of privacy action brought by Nikki Pelley, the girlfriend of wife-killer Joe O’Reilly, against the Irish Sun newspaper has been settled, the High Court heard today. Ms Pelley had sought an injunction, damages and declarations against the newspaper over the publication on March 19 and March 21, 2011, of private…
Can a huge privacy breach really have no consequences?
I’m absolutely mind-boggled by an Israeli data theft that I’ve been covering over on DataBreaches.net. The gist of the situation is that a programmer allegedly copied a database with the details of millions of Israelis. Over the years, that database was shared and integrated with at least 11 other databases, shared some more, and became…
Haringey housing association accused of data breach bungle
Remember when a council turned over unredacted neighbor complaints to the very people being complained about? It’s happened again, although this time on a smaller scale. Flora Drury reports: A Haringey housing association made a neighbours’ dispute worse after handing a bundle of confidential complaints to the very neighbour they were related to, it is…