Whitehall’s largest legal department, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department (TSol) is to improve its data protection practices after an independent investigation found it had breached the Data Protection Act four times between 2011 and 2012.
The investigation by the UK’s independent data privacy authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), found that TSol failed to comply with the act after it released the personal information of individuals to third parties on four separate occasions between August 2011 and November 2012.
