Only a fraction of breaches of the Data Protection Act are reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), a study has revealed.

Just 1,089 breaches were reported to the ICO in the 12 months to March 2015, yet in the same period 13,000 devices that could hold sensitive data were stolen or went missing.

Reported by Computer Weekly. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.