Adoption families in Kent County Council data breach (Failure to use BCC!)

[elsiegee40]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-47390022

 

Contact details of hundreds of adoptive parents have been disclosed in a council email.

"Human error" was blamed for the email from Kent County Council's adoption service being sent to some 300 adoptive parents and some support workers.

The authority has apologised to parents and pledged to improve security procedures, while its data-protection team has begun an investigation.

It will be interesting to see how this failure to use BCC plays out with the ICO

 

The council said it was investigating whether the breach met the threshold required for reporting to the ICO.

Really?! No brainer this one!

Edited February 27, 2019 by elsiegee40

[free780]

Will Email rights management become the normal soon as a result?

[AndyCrow]

Sadly the ICO will do nothing.

There will be a rap on the knuckles, the Council will say that they will do more training.....and the same thing will happen again.

Wokingham Council has had 5 breaches in a year!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-47370428

[blueday]

There doesn't seem to have been any action taken by the ICO yet regarding the Kent school (Rochester Grammar) who lost an unencrypted USB with a large amount of data on pupils, and that was last June.

[AndyCrow]

Another example of slapped wrists...[h=1]Gateshead Council data breaches share health and debt details...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-47460370#[/h]