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Data Protection law in the UK

12. Penalties

The criminal offences that can be committed and the subsequent penalties that can be imposed on the offenders.

It should be noted that the maximum penalties are unlikely to be imposed where a firm has taken reasonabl...

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...unt of the rules and fines up to roughly 50% of this level are possible for other data security breaches.
When looking at infringements, the supervisory authorit...

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...tions that are effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
It might be helpful to consider the remedies that have been used previously:

Information notices – requests to provide information

Undertaking to comply with rules in future

Orders to cease and desist processing

Audits

Criminal prosecution

Cases of breaches of data protection law have sometimes been quite high profile these are a few examples:

In 2007 some major high street banks were named and shamed for having left customers’ personal information in unsecured rubbish bins ou...

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...ustomers, without consent

Firms can help to avoid Data Security breaches by:

Ensuring software is up to date

Installing security software for virus and malware protection

Installing firewall software

Having and enforcing policies and procedures such as acceptable IT use

Educating staff, requiring regular refresher training

Reinforcing that care should be taken with addressing when sending emails

Using secure file sharing and messaging services when personal data is being transmitted

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