ICO Lambasts British Council After Data Loss

Our Comments

The British Council should have known better. It either illustrates a disregard for data protection laws or an example of corporate mismanagement. None of which should be permissible in today's current economic climate. There's a chance that the data is misused, resold or used in identity fraud cases, which could have some very damaging effect on the lives of the 2,000 or so people whose data have been lost.

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