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UK government department 'reprimanded' for poor data protection due diligence

( November 7, 2022, 14:20 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The UK government's education department has been reprimanded for the "prolonged misuse" of the personal information of up to 28 million children. The Information Commissioner's Office said today that an investigation found that the Department for Education's poor due diligence allowed an employment screening firm called Trustopia to use a pupils' learning database to check whether people opening gambling accounts were over 18. Under John Edwards, the head of the regulator since January, the watchdog generally does not fine public bodies. If it did not have this policy, the department would have been fined more than 10 million pounds, the authority said.The statement follows. The reprimand is attached. ...

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