Sold a desk – and broke the GDPR rules

The Belfast Health Trust sold a desk which apparently contain sensitive documents. The incident is being investigated internally and the ICO has been notified.

Belfast Trust investigates potential data breach after selling desk – BBC News

When we have been helping our clients create their privacy and information policies for GDPR, they are always surprised when we want to talk about physical documents and filing cabinets – everyone is focused on websites, databases, computers and emails and forget the obvious.

Do you leave sensitive data laying in a communal printer tray for anyone to look at?

Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles