Information Commissioner makes offers you can’t refuse
Just a few brief comments about an exchange that occurred during the data protection conference recently run by the National Association of Data Protection Officers (NADPO), which had Deputy Information Commissioner, David Smith, as a keynote speaker. The questioning surrounded the Enforcement Notice issued to M&S in 2008 relating to a data loss following the theft of an unencrypted laptop which contained the personal information of 26,000 M&S employees. Evidently M&S was offered an undertaking which they were reluctant to




