ICO Issues Enforcement Notice and Reprimand to Metropolitan Police Service Following Data Protection Failures

Met Police ordered to review ‘weak’ data protection policies after major breaches

ICO finds ‘serious and ongoing shortcomings’ after Met Police gave victim’s details to alleged stalker

The regulator dedicated to data and privacy issues found problems in areas such as governance and training, having probed two incidents in which sensitive information was exposed by the force London’s Metropolitan Police Service has been formally reprimanded after regulators found “serious and ongoing shortcomings” that contributed to a data breach in which a stalking victim’s new address was provided to the defendant in her case. This incident …

ICO finds ‘serious’ flaws in Met Police’s data protection training

The Metropolitan Police has been issued with an enforcement notice and reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office to significantly improve its data protection training, monitoring and governance arrangements. The data watchdog found “multiple weaknesses” and ordered the Met Police to make data protection improvements to reduce the risk of unlawful disclosure of personal information. The ICO found that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS…

A stalker received his victim's new address. The ICO says the real failure started long before - VinciWorks

Human error is often blamed when personal data is exposed. Someone forgets to redact a document. Someone clicks “Reply All.” Someone puts recipients in the wrong email field. But in its latest enforcement action against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) emphasises that these incidents weren’t simply the result of individual mistakes. They were the inevitable outcome of weak governance, poor oversi…

ICO issues enforcement notice and reprimand to Metropolitan Police Service following data protection failures

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice and reprimand to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after personal information in two highly sensitive police cases was erroneously disclosed. The ICO found that MPS failed to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect people’s personal information, an infringement of section 40 of the Data Protection Act 2018. The ICO’s investigation r…