ADVERTISEMENT

ICO slams council for dumping confidential information in skip

Dawinderpal Sahota
Dawinderpal Sahota
clock 15 March 2011 •

Wolverhampton City Council signs undertaking after breaching Data Protection Act

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded a local council that allowed confidential personal information to be disposed of in a skip. Wolverhampton City Council breached the Data Protection...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

ADVERTISEMENT
Dawinderpal Sahota
Author spotlight

Dawinderpal Sahota

View profile
More from Dawinderpal Sahota

IBM interns develop new technologies

A Day in the Life of a CIO

ADVERTISEMENT

More on Management

Rackspace is about to lay off ten per cent of its workforce
Management

Rackspace is about to lay off ten per cent of its workforce

Most roles will go overseas where wages are lower

Dev Kundaliya
clock 27 July 2021 • 2 min read
The most common IT mistakes
Management

The top IT mistakes small businesses make and how to fix them

Laurene Hamilton, Head of Technology Operations and Co-Founder of IT outsourcing firm Seeto, runs through the most common technology oversights organisations make, and explains what they need to do to put them right

Stuart Sumner
Stuart Sumner
clock 14 July 2021 • 5 min read
The coming epidemic of data exfiltration
Security

Peter Cochrane: The coming epidemic of data exfiltration

As people move jobs, they not only take their sought-after skills and abilities, they also take all their documents, data and stored knowledge with them

Professor Peter Cochrane
clock 07 July 2021 • 3 min read
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT