WRITTEN ON March 23rd, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Data nitwittery, Foundation of Trust, We told you so..., What do we want?

Further evidence that the public sector employs its fair share of crooks and nitwits:

A POLICEWOMAN has been charged with illegally accessing personal data using the cops’ own information system. Anna Wong, 26, faces 54 charges in breach of the Data Protection Act and has been suspended from duty by Lothian and Borders Police. It is alleged she used the Scottish Intelligence Database and the Lothian and Borders Operational Support System to obtain personal details of several individuals.

Any model for keeping personal data secure has to protect against the insider threat (I cant believe we’re still having to say this after all these years).

See also comment from the excellent Olswang data protection team.