And there's more: http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2012/council-fined-for-serious-email-disclosure-15022012.aspx Local Authorities £1,040,000 in fines others £61,000. Martin Gibson Data Protection Officer Legal and Democratic Services Buckinghamshire County Council 01296 382907 www.buckscc.gov.uk ________________________________ From: Gibson, Martin (ICT) Sent: Monday 13 February 2012 13:27 To: 'Ibrahim Hasan'; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: [data-protection] 2 more councils fines By my crude calculation that makes it Local Authorities £960,000 in fines others £61,000. At present other public authorities such as Health and police are showing fines of £nil, what examples can our colleagues in these other areas give those of us in such a poor compliance area such local government to improve and reduce the level of fines being handed out? Martin Martin Gibson Data Protection Officer Legal and Democratic Services Buckinghamshire County Council www.buckscc.gov.uk<http://www.buckscc.gov.uk> ________________________________ From: This list is for those interested in Data Protection issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Hasan Sent: Monday 13 February 2012 11:11 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [data-protection] 2 more councils fines The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties totalling £180,000 to two councils for failing to keep highly sensitive information about the welfare of children secure. These latest penalties bring the total amount served by the ICO to organisations found in serious breach of the Data Protection Act to over one million pounds. Croydon Council has been handed a penalty of £100,000 after a bag containing papers relating to the care of a child sex abuse victim was stolen from a London pub. Norfolk County Council has been served with an £80,000 penalty for disclosing information about allegations against a parent and the welfare of their child to the wrong recipient. http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2012/councils-fined-for-serious-data-breaches-13022012.aspx Regards Ibrahim Hasan Solicitor and Director Act Now Training Limited For training without the strain of the train: www.actnow.org.uk<http://www.actnow.org.uk> Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ActNowTraining ________________________________ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html Selected commands (the command has been filled in below in the body of the email if you are receiving emails in HTML format): * Leaving this list: send leave data-protection to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY=LEAVE%20data-protection> * Suspending emails from all JISCMail lists: send SET * NOMAIL to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY=SET%20*%20NOMAIL> * To receive emails from this list in text format: send SET data-protection NOHTML to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY=SET%20data-protection%20NOHTML> * To receive emails from this list in HTML format: send SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]&BODY=SET%20data-protection%20HTML> All user commands can be found at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm and are sent in the body of an otherwise blank email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (Please send all commands to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> not the list or the moderators, and all requests for technical help to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, the general office helpline) ________________________________ Buckinghamshire County Council Visit our Web Site : http://www.buckscc.gov.uk Buckinghamshire County Council Email Disclaimer This Email, and any attachments, may contain Protected or Restricted information and is intended solely for the individual to whom it is addressed. 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