ICO spanks Kent Police for data loss
Nicked from car boot
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Kent Police has been reprimanded by the Information Commissioner's Office and has promised to improve policies following the loss of private data from the back of a car.
Adrian Leppard, temporary Chief Constable of Kent Police, has signed an undertaking to improve policies. The data was left in the boot of an officer's car overnight and stolen.
The officer had not used a secure briefcase to transport the papers and did not have secure storage at home.
The information was found by a member of the public and returned to a local police station the next day.
The ICO found the force in breach of the Data Protection Act.
Staff at Kent Police who need to take confidential information outside the station will now be given secure briefcases and storage facilities at home. The policy for transporting and safely storing such information has been clarified and staff will be trained in the new procedures. ®
COMMENTS
What possible reason
would there be for sensitive data to be taken to an employee's home? are their spouses and children security cleared? Do they sign an agreement that they will never stop off at the shops leaving the car unattended or pick up passengers, on the way home from work?
What...
...no half million quid fine, the likes of which was threatened if anyone else (other than the old bill apparently) monumentally f*cked up in such a way?!
Beyond a joke
"Adrian Leppard, temporary Chief Constable of Kent Police, has signed an undertaking to improve policies." With what consequences and what punishment if he fails? They always just say sorry and do it again within a week. There have been dozens of stories of this type (not all the police -- sometimes NHS etc.) this year in The Reg already.
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