London cops handed victim's new address and number to her stalker, watchdog says
Met ordered to improve safeguards after two preventable data breaches
The UK's data protection regulator has criticized London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after its officers handed a victim's stalker details about her new phone number and home address, among other failures.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) today issued the MPS with an enforcement notice [PDF] and a reprimand over the two incidents, which occurred in 2024.
Enforcement notices include specific steps offending organizations must take to meet their data protection duties under UK law, while reprimands serve as official warnings concerning breached data protection laws.
The ICO outlined two major incidents that were caused by failures at the MPS, but added that they were not isolated and "reflected wider weaknesses in MPS policies, procedures, and assurance arrangements for handling sensitive personal information."
The first involved a man subject to an interim Stalking Protection Order (SPO), which restricted him from contacting...
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