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Welsh environment regulator's FoI blunder exposes diversity data of 2,000 staff

NRW says it has found no evidence data was misused after spreadsheet published in error five years ago

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) says diversity data belonging to around 2,000 current and former employees who worked at the environmental regulator between April 2013 and March 2018 was exposed in a classic Freedom of Information (FoI) blunder.

The Welsh government-sponsored body confirmed on Friday the information was "inadvertently disclosed" in a spreadsheet published on a website. Its statement did not identify the site, explain how the sensitive data came to be posted there, or say how many people were affected.

NRW subsequently told The Register that around 2,000 people were affected and said it had released the information in 2021 as part of a response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The exposed information may have included ethnicity, disability status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, Welsh language ability,...

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