Anglesey Council warned to improve data protection

The ICO said that the Council has ‘repeatedly failed’ to address security and privacy issues regarding personal data, with no improvements made following two incidents in 2011.

Under the enforcement notice, the Council must give all staff mandatory data protection, ensure appropriate controls are in place and maintain a records management policy.

Anne Jones, assistant commissioner for Wales, said: “It is not acceptable for an organisation to disregard the findings of audits or to fail to deliver promised improvements.

“Anglesey Council has not provided sufficient evidence to show it has implemented our recommendations to the standards we would expect.

“Put simply, the ICO lacks confidence in Anglesey County Council’s commitment to having the measures in place that are needed to keep people’s personal data secure. This enforcement notice puts an additional legal requirement on them to do so.”

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