Day: January 25, 2010

I assume data protection officers are telling their employers about the Monetary Penalty Notice when it arrives on April 6th. Indeed, the first hapless data controller who loses unencrypted confidential or sensitive personal data can be expected to gain a special place in UK data protection history. So it might be worth mentioning that being first in this category will be remembered; "numero uno" is a PR disaster in the making. If you look at the Commissioner’s web-site you find several examples