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Tag: Employment Law for Employers, Data Protection, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence

Employers’ Liability for Data Protection Breaches – Supreme Court Ruling

Employers’ Liability for Data Protection Breaches – Supreme Court Ruling

To what extent do employers bear indirect, or vicarious, liability for breaches of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) perpetrated by their staff? The Supreme Court decisively resolved that issue in a test case concerning a supermarket worker who placed highly confidential payroll information online