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British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade, senior judges have ruled.
Proposals to allow ministers to sanction the sharing of confidential personal data across Whitehall and beyond are also being debated by MPs.
It is also alleged journalists gained unlawful access to confidential personal data, including tax records, social security files, bank statements and phone bills.
In October, the investigatory powers tribunal, the only court that hears complaints against MI6, MI5 and GCHQ, ruled that they had been unlawfully collecting massive volumes of confidential personal data without proper oversight for 17 years.
Now we know that it is so careless in handling security that it allowed a Department of Veterans Affairs employee to take home confidential personal data on up 26.5 million military veterans to an insecure location, where it was stolen.
Small-scale networks such as those in cafes, libraries and universities could find themselves targeted under the legislation and forced to hand over customers' confidential personal data tracking their web use.
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Do not throw documents containing confidential personal information (e.g. credit card numbers. personal correspondence, financial data) in public trash canisters.
The Lib Dems say there is a clear need for legislation after the Snowden revelations of mass harvesting of confidential personal digital data by GCHQ and the US National Security Agency, but that the "snooper's charter" includes powers that are disproportionate and misguided.
This is vitally important if the data involved is not just for testing, but constitutes real corporate data, perhaps even confidential or personal data.
Although, some participants sought reassurance about how secure and confidential their personal data would be implying levels of conditional trust.
One of the main concerns from environmentalists, science advocates, Democrats and others about Smith's demands for the Harvard and American Cancer Society data is that the data includes confidential, personal health information from participants who were promised confidentiality.
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