Last month, Dumfries and Galloway Council became the latest UK local authority to fall foul of the Information Commissioner. The council was found to have breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally publishing a spreadsheet containing the names, salaries and dates of birth of nearly 900 current and former employees on their website. The personal information [...]

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Surrey County Council £120,000 for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act after sensitive personal information was emailed to the wrong recipients on three separate occasions. In the first incident on 17 May last year, a member of one of the council’s adult social care teams emailed a file [...]