IT Security Expert: UK Data Protection Review for December 2012

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The UK based IT Security Expert blog by Dave Whitelegg CISSP CCSP providing general Information Security advice & help in securing the home PC & home computer user, as well as business IT systems. With a focus on all the latest developments & issues within the Information Security field like wireless networking, Spam, Botnets, viruses, identify theft, regularity compliance like PCI & ISO27001, hopefully all will be explained in an easy to understand not too technical way, well I'll try my best!

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

UK Data Protection Review for December 2012

Leeds City Council has been fined £95,000 by the ICO watchdog after it sent highly confidential and sensitive personal data about a child in care to the wrong person.

Devon County Council had been fined £90,000 by the ICO after a social worker who had been preparing an "adopting panel report" sent out an alternative file they had been using as a template to the wrong family.

Lewisham Council fined £70,000 by ICO after sensitive personal information was left on a train

A bank employee has been fined after a court heard she unlawfully accessed bank statements of her partner’s ex-wife.