The Information Commissioner’s Office is warning people of the risks of holding on to sensitive personal data when they change jobs or leave a company. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/09/information-commissioner-s-office-issues-warning-about-historical-personal-details-accessed-through-work/ It follows an investigation into the actions of two former Metropolitan Police officers who – having retained their notebooks – subsequently leaked information about a case in the media. Although the […]

Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2017] EWCA Civ 74 A recent decision of the Court of Appeal in the UK suggests that beneficiaries seeking trust information may be able to get around trust law restrictions by filing a data subject access request under data protection legislation. The case of Dawson-Damer v Taylor Wessing LLP [2017] […]

Software vulnerabilities, lost hard drives and CDs, malicious insiders, poor security – the UK’s most important data breaches reveal just how many ways data can be put at risk. It’s tempting to believe that important data breaches only happen in the US and the figures tend to bear that out – the US accounts for […]