Data Breach Practitioners: You have the legal right under the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR to have personal and sensitive information and data about you held accurately and securely. A failure to do this is considered a data breach and where serious damage, emotionally, financially or to your reputation results you may have a claim.
You should ask yourself, has your information been: – Stored inaccurately? – Held longer than necessary? – Made public? – Stolen or accessed by a third party? – Disclosed outside of your consent? – Disclosed/used with consent but to an incorrect party?
Unfortunately, many nurseries, schools, colleges, universities and exam boards make data breach mistakes and when they do, there are severe consequences for children, staff, pupils, students and their respective families
Local councils and authorities, and government bodies, possess a wide range of personal and sensitive information which must be used correctly and protected securely.
The Police and the Criminal justice system possess and access our personal sensitive information through the Police National Computer, APNR and Court records
Phone companies are in possession of information and data relating to our private lives such as phone calls, text messages, emails, contacts, imagery, usernames and passwords.
Private companies should protect your private information just like they protect their own business interests. Unfortunately, they often forget to treat customer, client, or employee data with the importance that it should.
With the NHS becoming overstretched through lack of funding, the stressful workload of employees is resulting in mistakes being made in respect of data breach failings and the release of sensitive medical information.