[Dataloss] UK: Police personal data found on discarded floppy

[Brian Honan]

Don't forget that under EU, and UK, Data Protection legislation businesses and organisations are obliged to protect the personal information they hold on their customers and in some cases their staff.

While the EU Data Protection legisation places obligations on companies to protect this personal data, there are no significant breach disclosure laws.  So in my opinion breaches of this nature within the EU are significant as they could be in breach of the Data Protection legislation and we need to publicly know what breaches are occuring so that we can better argue for the introduction of data breach disclosure laws.

Brian

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:40:52 +0000 (UTC), lyger <lyger at attrition.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Michael Hill, CITRMS wrote:
> 
> ": " We get that question a lot in our business and here's how we answer
> it.
> ": "
> ": " "Mr. (Business Owner) if I call into your business and ask for your
> home address and phone number, will you or whomever answers the phone
> going to give it to me?"   I think not.  The home address and phone number
> is just the first step to getting your identity stolen.
> 
> Not to take things too far, but I guess that was my part of my point.  If
> someone cold-called my place of business and asked for that information, I
> wouldn't be willing to give it out.  However, what's to stop anyone from
> getting a copy of the White Pages or just getting online and hitting
> Google or a dozen other search engines for the same information (if the
> person in question is listed by such)?
> 
> By the way, Adam made a good point about wanting a broader realm of
> disclosure for tracking and analysis.  I wasn't trying to criticize the
> content of the original post; it was more about opening discussion as to
> what might be considered "personal", "private", "public", or "other".  Any
> other thoughts?
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