Honours addresses data leak

[saaby93]

Should make anyone wary of accepting an honeour
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50937775
As well as the usual pdf there was a spreadsheet online which didnt seem to be there in previous years. It included the fields for addresses.

Doubtless they'll say 'human error' but what sort of checking mechanism could be put in place to avoid releasing too much data?
Keep data on index cards in a filing cabinet?

[Agammemnon]

saaby93 said:

Doubtless they'll say 'human error'

They'll never do that- nobody in the public sector should ever be held accountable for their acts because of the risk of having a 'culture of blame'. It'll be 'systemic error' or 'institutional failing' from which 'lessons will be learned'.

[Taita]

That is some next level idiocy

[Sheepshanks]

Agammemnon said:

They'll never do that- nobody in the public sector should ever be held accountable for their acts because of the risk of having a 'culture of blame'. It'll be 'systemic error' or 'institutional failing' from which 'lessons will be learned'.

Nonsense. What’ll happen will some junior clerk will have their fixed term contract terminated.

[rxe]

There isn’t a system because this is a process that happens once a year.

Proper commercial operations tend to avoid doing this because it’s difficult to post random stuff to a company site.

This “system” probably involves some junior civil servant passing a list around that Boris and the Queen approve, then they stick it on a website. They copied both files rather than one. Big hairy deal. I’m sure that someone could build a “system” that only allowed name uploads, but it would cost millions and wouldn’t work.

[Agammemnon]

Sheepshanks said:

What’ll happen will some junior clerk will have their fixed term contract terminated.

Will this clerk have had any involvement in the problem?

Edited by Agammemnon on Sunday 29th December 10:03

[Eric Mc]

I wonder what punishment the Information Commissioner will dish out? After all, this is a serious breach under the General Data Protection Regulations which has some very harsh penalties associated with it.

[CzechItOut]

Eric Mc said:

I wonder what punishment the Information Commissioner will dish out? After all, this is a serious breach under the General Data Protection Regulations which has some very harsh penalties associated with it.

Any fine will by the taxpayer, which is ironic.

[Gromm]

Did the muppets blame forrin hackers for it yet?