176 government data breaches in the last year
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Figures released yesterday by the Information Commissioner’s Office show that there have been 176 data breaches in the public sector in the past year.
Data breaches in the private sector were less than half this number: 80 cases were reported.
Earlier this year, Parliament decided that the ICO would be given greater powers to penalise organisations which “recklessly” lose personal data. Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is calling for this to take place as soon as possible.
www.publicservice.co.uk has the story.
