Taxi Driver Online

Lord Nicholls in Campbell v MGN Ltd [2004] A.C.457 at 464-5 summarised the law of confidence as “[the imposition] of a duty of confidence whenever a person receives information he knows or ought to know is fairly and reasonably to be regarded as confidential”
Further, Article. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (dealing with the right to privacy)
has reshaped the action for breach of confidence so that it now protects the misuse of private information?
It could pay for your licence fees for the next 10 yrs

They are under a legal duty to keep customer information secure.


Monetary penalty notices

A monetary penalty will only be served in the most serious situations. When deciding the size of a monetary penalty, the ICO takes into account the seriousness of the breach and other factors like the size, financial and other resources of an organisation’s data controller. The ICO can impose a penalty of up to £500,000. It is worth noting that monetary penalties are to HM Treasury.

6 August 2012 A monetary penalty of £175,000 was issued to Torbay Care Trust after sensitive personal information relating to 1,373 employees was published on the Trust’s website. Read the details here.
12 July 2012 A monetary penalty of £60,000 was issued to St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust after a vulnerable individual’s sensitive medical details were sent to the wrong address.
5 July 2012 A monetary penalty notice of £150,000 has been served to Welcome Financial Services Limited following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act. The breach led to the personal data of more than half a million customers being lost.
19 June 2012 A monetary penalty notice of £225,000 has been served to Belfast Health and Social Care Trust following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act. The breach led to the sensitive personal data of thousands of patients and staff being compromised. The Trust also failed to report the incident to the ICO.
6 June 2012 A monetary penalty for £90,000 has been served to Telford & Wrekin Council for two serious breaches of the seventh data protection principle. A Social Worker sent a core assessment report to the child’s sibling instead of the mother. The assessment contained confidential and highly sensitive personal data. Whilst investigating the first incident, a second incident was reported to the ICO involving the inappropriate disclosure of foster carer names and addresses to the children’s mother. Both children had to be re-homed.
1 June 2012 A monetary penalty notice for £325,000 has been served on Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust following the discovery of highly sensitive personal data belonging to tens of thousands of patients and staff – including some relating to HIV and Genito Urinary Medicine patients – on hard drives sold on an Internet auction site in October and November 2010. Read the details here.
21 May 2012 A monetary penalty notice for £90,000 has been served on Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust for a serious contravention of the DPA, which occurred when sensitive personal data was faxed to an incorrect and unidentified number. The contravention was repeated on 45 occasions over a number of weeks and compromised 59 data subjects’ personal data. Read the details here.
15 May 2012 A monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to the London Borough of Barnet following the loss of sensitive information relating to 15 vulnerable children or young people, during a burglary at an employee’s home. Read the details here.
30 April 2012 A monetary penalty of £70,000 has been issued to the Aneurin Bevan Health Board following an incident where a sensitive report containing explicit details relating to a patient’s health – was sent to the wrong person. Read the details here.
14 March 2012 A monetary penalty of £70,000 was issued to Lancashire Constabulary following the discovery of a missing person’s report containing sensitive personal information about a missing 15 year old girl. Read the details here.
15 February 2012 A monetary penalty of £80,000 has been issued to Cheshire East Council after an email containing sensitive personal information about an individual of concern to the police was distributed to 180 unintended recipients. Read the details here.
13 February 2012 A monetary penalty of £100,000 has been issued to Croydon Council after a bag containing papers relating to the care of a child sex abuse victim was stolen from a London pub. View a PDF of the Croydon Council monetary penalty notice
13 February 2012 A monetary penalty of £80,000 has been issued to Norfolk County Council for disclosing information about allegations against a parent and the welfare of their child to the wrong recipient.
30 January 2012 A monetary penalty of £140,000 was issued to Midlothian Council for disclosing sensitive personal data relating to children and their carers to the wrong recipients on five separate occasions. The penalty is the first that the ICO has served against an organisation in Scotland. Read the details here.

Where the hell do I find this information on their website. I have been looking but so far I can't even find the bits that are already posted.

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Grandad,

I've found it. Let the games begin.

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Grandad,

No you have found it,you need to keep your eye on it;-) I could not find the advert for fee increases? They will be publishing the accounts soon,for public view? Get your pen and paper ready. Oh we don't use them anymore,take your phone and take pics.

There is nothing probable about it.

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IDFIMH

make/take screenshots and print off hard copy cos otherwise the LA spooks will wipe everything clean

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Already done. I was going to send an email to the council pointing out the breaches but for some reason when I pressed the send key the emails went to the Sun and the BBC.

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Grandad,

easy mistake, unintended im sure

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

One of the other people involved has been to see the LO this morning. The response, I am told, was appeals regarding vehicle applications are in the public domain as are the supporting documents. I am waiting to hear from the Chief Executive.

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Grandad,

Possibly so, but should they be posted on the web? lots of authority documents are in the PD but you have to visit the council offices to view, theyve put a V5 online, with reg/name and VIN, thats an open invitation to any car cloner/ringer...

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Utter rubbish.

Make a formal complaint to the council via their complaints department, and then follow it up with a complaint to the Information Commissioner.

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IDFIMH

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

To get back to my original post (from a week working in a pleasant part of south Germany), the mrs tells me the cheque for renewing the P plate has been cashed by the District Council along with a receipt and a letter saying they won't relicence a 7 year old car, and how to appeal; all this after having been told by the Licencing Manager that they have to relicence pending appeal. She expects the P plate to appear in the post tomorrow!

Am I missing something?

No it's as clear as day, they don't know what they are doing.

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IDFIMH