Saturday 10 May 2008

Keep clients and ourselves out of jail!

Am I reading this right? Can our clients' directors go to jail over personal data loss? Let's run a public event on the subject.

Quote from Computing Magazine's website - "Recently there have been several high-profile incidents where various public and private sector organisations have failed to take the appropriate steps to comply with the seventh principle to the Act, which states that: “Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.”

http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2214868/keep-jail-free-card-3952115

1 comment:

Ed Bedell said...

Yes this is certainly an issue, and worth discussing at a seminar... I am trying to get a legal seminar together with a local law company, so we could cover this as well..

Ed