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I don’t know much about this particular case, but speaking as someone who has experienced serious lapses of data protection in the UK university sector, there n
by noodlesUK 7y ago
I don’t know much about this particular case, but speaking as someone who has experienced serious lapses of data protection in the UK university sector, there needs to be stronger enforcement of data protection laws, as the universities just don’t care. They make a huge fuss about privacy to students, but will just randomly hand out PII without a second thought. I’ve personally seen spreadsheets of people’s enrolment and disability status sent to entire mailing lists by mistake, egregiously violating data protection law. I’ve actually called the ICO before when I realised that literally hundreds of high privilege SU accounts had the same password (these accounts were used to handle expense claims for thousands of students, and had years of bank records). There was no enforcement action as far as I’m aware.
I doubt that the administrators who provided this information to the Met even thought about the students rights for a second.
- huntermeyer 7y agoAccording to the article the administration knew there were privacy concerns. > In response to a request for the dates of birth of the protesters from the Met Police, an email from KCL read: "We've taken their details from our card security which does not have DoB. I would have to go to student services which would raise flags and cause chatter so would rather not as this is a sensitive around student freedosm!!! [sic]"
- noodlesUK 7y agoOh dear... That sounds like a security team bending over backwards to accommodate a police request knowing that it’s against data protection policy...
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoThe police hadn't even requested the data. It's the security team going out of their way to bend over backwards in hope of pleasing the police despite knowing that it’s against data protection policy...