DWP publishes personal data of 6,000 benefit claimants online
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DWP publishes personal data of 6,000 benefit claimants online
Regulators have been alerted after the Department for Work and Pensions mistakenly published personal details of more than 6,000 claimants of the Personal Independence Payment benefit.
Two spreadsheets – containing the National Insurance numbers of about 6,400 people that claim the benefit – were first published in 2018, and the data remained publicly available online for more than two years.
https://publictechnology.net/articles/news/ico-alerted-after-dwp-publishes-personal-data-6000-benefit-claimants
certainly proves dwp cant be trusted with your data
Two spreadsheets – containing the National Insurance numbers of about 6,400 people that claim the benefit – were first published in 2018, and the data remained publicly available online for more than two years.
https://publictechnology.net/articles/news/ico-alerted-after-dwp-publishes-personal-data-6000-benefit-claimants
certainly proves dwp cant be trusted with your data
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Re: DWP publishes personal data of 6,000 benefit claimants online
I have had first hand experience of this. And took the issue up in full with appropriate authorities who quite frankly didn't give a toss.
Data retention is not their strong point it would appear.
Data retention is not their strong point it would appear.
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