Employmnt Data protection issue?

[bitemarx]

Just wondering about this:

As a part of an investigation at work,

one of the emails sent to me by the case investigator was mistakenly sent to a person in the NHS trust who isn't part of the investigation.

 

Does this constitute a breach of confidentiality and/or data protection?

[silverfox1961]

Hi

I would say yes to the Data Protection breach and should be reported.

Confidentiality is neither here nor there as the DP breach covers it.

[Ethel Street]

It depends what was in the email how significant it was.

[bitemarx]

Hi

I would say yes to the Data Protection breach and should be reported.

Confidentiality is neither here nor there as the DP breach covers it.

 

What I would really like to know if whether there are grounds for any compensation for this, because the email contained the details of an investigation meeting. It didn't have any details about the matter but the time and place. And it also touched upon the seriousnbess of the matter.

[Ethel Street]

What I would really like to know if whether there are grounds for any compensation for this, .

 

Not unless you can show you have suffered actual financial loss as a result of the data breach.

[bitemarx]

Thank you.

[ericsbrother]

If the recipient has told the sender they have done this then that sender should self report to their Data Controller. Ask the question The recipient should have also deleted said email and not spoken to anyone about is as well. That needs to be asked about as well but not necessarily now