“TLT and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] EWHC 2217 (QB) How do you quantify damages for data breaches? Is the distress caused by an accidental data breach comparable to phone-hacking? Should damages for distress be equivalent to damages for psychiatric injuries? In October 2013, the Home Office published statistics on its family returns process, the means by which children with no right to remain in the UK are sent back to their country of origin. In addition to anonymised statistics uploaded onto the government website, the Home Office mistakenly uploaded the spreadsheet of raw data on which those statistics were based …” (more)
[Gideon Barth, UK Human Rights Blog, 25 October]
First posted 2016-10-25 12:06:28
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