Data protection is a growing issue for organisations across the public and private sectors. Philip Hoult reports on a joint Legal Week/Computing seminar on this complex subject
Earlier this month HSBC admitted that it had lost a computer disc holding information on 370,000 life insurance customers. The banking group, which faces a potential investigation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) as a result, was just the latest in a growing list of private and public sector organisations to have lost personal data.
