Lancashire County Council has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act after social work records containing sensitive personal information were found in a second-hand filing cabinet bought by a member of the public.
The records, which were duplicates of documents held by the council, contained what the Information Commissioner called ‘extensive’ amounts of personal data about individuals.
Source: Information Commissioner’s Office, 18 January 2010.
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By Ian Cuddy
Topics: Data Breach Log, Local Government
| Published: 19 January 2010: 8:12 am