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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found that Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was in breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) after a member of its HR team transferred personal information about a Trust employee, which was not password or encryption protected, to a home computer
Recent high profile stories from the world of sport, one concerning footballers and Twitter and the other an alleged breach of data protection rules by a FIFA ticket retailer have again highlighted for employers the issues that potentially arise from use of social media by employees
