A local authority has signed an undertaking to improve the security of the personal data it holds after information about six vulnerable home support clients was stolen from a worker, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. North Lanarkshire Council’s guidance on how workers should use, transport and dispose of sensitive documents was “inadequate”, the […]
Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for breaking the Data Protection Act. The council was rapped for three separate offences. Firstly, in May last year it sent mental and physical health information on 241 individuals to the wrong group email address. Recipients included cab and coach firms. The council […]
Two out of five UK home users don’t have a clue about how to change the security settings of their home wireless network. The 21st century equivalent of a failure in understanding how to program home video recorders was exposed in a survey commissioned by privacy watchdogs at the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The online […]