The Information Commissioner’s Office has reprimanded the Metropolitan Police over two cases in which it accidentally disclosed sensitive data, including sending the address and phone number of a female stalking victim to a defendant.
The ICO said the Met’s policies were “weak” and had “serious shortcomings”, noting that one of the officers involved had not completed data protection training for more than four years before the incident.
In one case, a woman had to move house and change her phone number after a Met officer sent her details to a defendant in a stalking protection order case. It also sent the names and contact details of three witnesses to the defendant.
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