Child Sex Abuse Inquiry Fined £200,000 After Email Blunder
Independent Inquiry into CHILD Sexual Abuse put vulnerable people at risk in data breach
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse ordered by the government in 2014 has been fined £200,000 after sending a bulk email that identified possible victims of child sexual abuse.
Vulnerable people were placed at risk owing to the error after the email was sent to 90 inquiry participants on 27 February last year, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said. Around 52 of the email addresses contained people’s full names, leaving at least one complainant “very distressed”, the ICO said.
Director of investigations Steve Eckersley said: “People’s email addresses can be searched via social networks and search engines, so the risk that they could be identified was significant.
“IICSA should and could have done more to ensure this did not happen.”
The inquiry is looking at the extent to which institutions failed to protect children from sexual abuse.
The mistaken disclosure of the sensitive personal information is a breach of the Data Protection Act 1998, the ICO said, since the breach preceded the 2018 act.
The IICSA failed to use an email account that could send a separate email to each participant and failed to train staff on the importance of checking that email addresses were entered into the “bcc” section, according to the ICO.
It also hired an IT company to manage the mailing list, and breached its own privacy notice by sharing participants’ email addresses with the company without their consent, the ICO investigation found.
Theresa May’s official spokesman said the prime minister continued to have confidence in the inquiry.
“The inquiry has apologised for this incident and referred itself to the ICO immediately, and has introduced a number of measures to improve its data management,” said the spokesman. The Home Office has received assurances that the IICSA is taking steps to continually strengthen its management of data.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/19/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-fined-200000-after-email-blunder
Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse https://www.iicsa.org.uk/about-us
Inquiry Team Chair - Professor Alexis Jay OBE and Panel https://www.iicsa.org.uk/about-us/who-we-are
This is a Gross Miscarriage. And here is the Clincher. She Still Has Confidence.
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septimasexta ago
"It also hired an IT company to manage the mailing list, and breached its own privacy notice by sharing participants’ email addresses with the company without their consent, the ICO investigation found."
I think this was deliberate. That's how they do it. Remember DWS and the Awan bros. who got in the country on a TEMPORARY refugee visa back when they had some natural disaster in Pakistan. Their visas were EXTENDED. I also know someone who has a child who works for a 501c3 in California. Their job is to help immigrant/minority high school students (didn't ask their status) get job seeking/interview skills and then they are enrolled in an IT TRAINING PROGRAM. IT work doesn't require a college degree, but talented ones can make good money and by nature of the job, have wide access to vast data, depending on their company or GOVERNMENT JOB. HMMMMMMM......
carmencita ago
You know what? I was thinking about something similar yesterday. The Cliff Richard payout. Possibly they raided his place and nothing was really found and a great way to shovel him a bunch of money for possible payment for boys or girls. This could be a new way to pay off their friends. Oh God why we have to think of such things.
septimasexta ago
And here's the twofer:
"However, the Corporation added that it was considering appealing the verdict, which it said set a worrying precedent on future reporting and "represents a dramatic shift against press freedom and the long-standing ability of journalists to report on police investigations"." https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-07-19/cliff-richard-bbc-case-children-privacy-police-raid/amp/
HMMMMM.
carmencita ago
Cliff Richard says he “won’t go anywhere near children” now after televised police raid and BBC privacy case Ha! Yeah he can't afford being seen with any. Tongues are and have been wagging for decades. He was a Rent Boy according to https://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2014/08/cliff-richard-top-pedophile-rings.html Me thinks thou protest too much Sir Richard. Best to keep your mouth shut while you are ahead. Everybody knows you are a kiddy diddler and I am sure a nasty one. He surely learned much from Jimmy S.