Data Protection Act? Anyone know?
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Hi all,
New to the forums so forgive me if its in the wrong place.
I work for an IT company and most of our business is with third party companies and a lot of the time because we are dealing with sensitive data we are required to be CRB checked. Recently my employer decided to perform their own CRB check and needless to say my colourful past appeared. Suffice to say this has not affected my employment but something the employer did state to all employees was the reason for the CRB check would be to help with third party companies requesting CRB checks.
I asked them to clarify this situation and basically if a third party asked for a CRB check, my employer would state to the third party that we have successfully passed the CRB to my employers satisfaction and that no information would be passed to the third party.
I have recently found out via the employee rumour mill that recently an email was doing the rounds that enclosed information about a number of employees and that status of their CRB information. I have already taken this up with my boss and stated that the data protection act forbids this without my prior consent. I have since found the said email and the email thread actually starts from a third party with the information and was passed to a number of people within the third party was then sent to a number of people within my own employers.
Recently the third party which we had filled in a seperate CRB disclosure form in for, claimed these were shredded by accident, yet reading the email thread they clearly knew the results of the CRB??? Which implies someone at my employers emailled these results through or the third party viewed the CRB forms my employer has???
Now the third party is asking for more CRB forms to be filled in as the child and vulnerable adults section was not disclosed. I am loathed to fill in more forms, full well knowing someone is not protecting my personal information.
I do not want to upset the apple cart at work, but believe this is totally out of order. Where do you think I stand with this?
Thanks all
Paul
New to the forums so forgive me if its in the wrong place.
I work for an IT company and most of our business is with third party companies and a lot of the time because we are dealing with sensitive data we are required to be CRB checked. Recently my employer decided to perform their own CRB check and needless to say my colourful past appeared. Suffice to say this has not affected my employment but something the employer did state to all employees was the reason for the CRB check would be to help with third party companies requesting CRB checks.
I asked them to clarify this situation and basically if a third party asked for a CRB check, my employer would state to the third party that we have successfully passed the CRB to my employers satisfaction and that no information would be passed to the third party.
I have recently found out via the employee rumour mill that recently an email was doing the rounds that enclosed information about a number of employees and that status of their CRB information. I have already taken this up with my boss and stated that the data protection act forbids this without my prior consent. I have since found the said email and the email thread actually starts from a third party with the information and was passed to a number of people within the third party was then sent to a number of people within my own employers.
Recently the third party which we had filled in a seperate CRB disclosure form in for, claimed these were shredded by accident, yet reading the email thread they clearly knew the results of the CRB??? Which implies someone at my employers emailled these results through or the third party viewed the CRB forms my employer has???
Now the third party is asking for more CRB forms to be filled in as the child and vulnerable adults section was not disclosed. I am loathed to fill in more forms, full well knowing someone is not protecting my personal information.
I do not want to upset the apple cart at work, but believe this is totally out of order. Where do you think I stand with this?
Thanks all
Paul
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