The accidental publication of a spreadsheet containing more than 345,000 pieces of data on the website “WhatDoTheyKnow” stemmed from a Freedom of Information (FoI) request which had asked for a breakdown of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) staff and their ranks (the exact question was “Could you provide the number
How to prevent data breaches and mitigate human error
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Lessons from the data breach at the Police Service of NI in which personal information on its 10,000 staff was mistakenly published online.