Two NI organisations breached email data rules
The breaches followed the use of bulk email methods to multiple addressees who were not anonymised
The Executive Office and the Patient and Client Council both used bulk email methods to send messages on sensitive topics to multiple recipients. They included 15 people across Northern Ireland who the Information Commissioner's Office said had "lived experience of gender dysphoria".These individuals were included in a bulk email from the Patient and Client Council after staff chose the carbon copy option to send the message.
"This could have been information the recipients would not wish to be shared with people unknown to them."a bulk email sent by the Executive Office's Interim Advocate's OfficeIt was set up after the report of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, which investigated child abuse in residential institutions.
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