WGPlus (Archive)
| Less haste, more care, fewer fines |
| Details of 2,000+ residents published online, a £70,000 penalty and an ‘extremely sorry’ local council. That was the result of Islington Council being a little more transparent than it had intended, providing a freedom of information requestor with spreadsheets they didn’t realise included sensitive personal data. That’s prompted the guidance the ICO has recently published: How to disclose information safely – removing personal data from information requests & datasets. |
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ICO: ‘Now you don’t see it, now you do’ – the dangers of hidden data |
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