It has been reported that the UK Home Office has breached European data protection regulations at least 100 times in its handling of the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). IDs have been lost, documents misplaced, passports have gone missing, and applicant information has been disclosed to third parties without permission in some of the cases, according to a new report.
Experts Comments
March 03, 2020
The ICIBI review of EUSS practices highlighted 100 instances of applicant data potentially being mishandled – a situation concerning in light of GDPR. Of these 100 instances, 63 were traceable to documents being misplaced by the postal services. In looking at the remaining instances, we see the impact of improving processes where by August 2019 EUSS employees were able to identify that six incidents were from documents being returned to applicants at addresses containing typographical errors.....Read More
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