Also: -
Care when sending emails - recent case of policeman writing that he hoped a tv presenter would "get eaten by a crocodile", and a few years back a woman received £10k when a SAR revealed that emails between her managers asked if they could go for a "fit blonde" next time who couldn't "be any more trouble"
Users of the inland revenue database got in trouble a few years back looking up acquaintances' financial details / selling celebrity details to the media
(This is relevant to our info security policy) The lady from Knowsley council who lost her job for storing photographs on her laptop of her and her husband being intimate then handed it to her employees when she went on holiday.
regards,
Tanya
Tanya Holden
Information Governance Manager
Metropolitan Housing Partnerhsip
>>> Tim Trent <[log in to unmask]> 21/03/2007 11:32:35 >>>
Physical security of laptops - that Nationwide thing is relevant, though the fine is only really for FSA regulated orgs
Personal trawls through data for own purposes are unlawful. Bank employees have lost their jobs over this, so have Police computer users
Important to monitor free text fields for compliance. Remember Airbus Industrie and Clifford Chance? There was also a letter addressed to "Dear Black Bastard" by a gas company because the data had been altered to make that inevitable by a disaffected employee.
Monitor conditional fields for correctness. My aunt, when 80, was told that she could not have a free TV licence because she was not yet whatever the age is. Yet they had her date of birth correct.
Best I can do at short notice.
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