Deputy Sean Power has resigned as Jersey’s housing minister after breaching data protection laws. He said he passed on an email he found lying on a printer in the States building in August last year. The Deputy said he felt like he had let down Housing Department staff, but did not feel his error was…
Category: Breaches
Je: More complaints to data protection about privacy breaches
The number of people who complained about having their privacy breached rose by a third in Jersey in 2010. A report by the office of the data protection commissioner said it was busier last year than ever before. Most of the complaints were about retailers, particularly online companies that sent unwanted marketing emails. Read more…
Ca: Justice Department speculates on privacy breaches
James McLeod reports: Justice Minister Felix Collins said it’s “fairly unlikely” that anyone’s privacy was breached despite concerns raised by the province’s auditor general. In the auditor general’s annual report on government operations, John Noseworthy wrote three accounts in the government’s Support Enforcement Division had been improperly accessed hundreds of times. Collins said he didn’t…
UK: Information Commissioner’s Office under fire for dropping BT investigation (update2)
Josh Halliday reports: Privacy groups have attacked the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for dropping its investigation into BT, which in September emailed details about more than 500 of its customers to a law firm. The ICO told the Guardian that BT cannot be held responsible for the action, in which a spreadsheet with confidential information…