Catastrophic PSNI blunder identifies every serving police officer and civilian staff, prompting security nightmare
by insomnimax_99
Catastrophic PSNI blunder identifies every serving police officer and civilian staff, prompting security nightmare
by insomnimax_99
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>However, a second tab in the spreadsheet contained tens of thousands of entries in relation to more than 10,000 individuals.
this is wild
So this is _insane:_
>The spreadsheet, which has been seen by the Belfast Telegraph after we were alerted to it by a relative of a serving officer, includes each officer’s service number, their status, their gender, their contract type, their last name and initials, details of how much of the week they work, and their rank.
>The database includes the location where each individual is based (but not their home address), their duty type (from chief constable to detective, intelligence officer and so on), details of their unit (such as the anti-corruption unit or the vetting department), their branch and department, and other technical information about their employment.
Why does a comprehensive database like this even exist? What happened to data minimization?
What a massive, massive fuck up. People are going to be killed over this.