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May 25, 2020

A council has shared your information: do you have case?

If a council has shared your information without consent, or inappropriately, you may be eligible to make a claim for compensation on a No Win, No Fee basis.

Council data breach compensation claims are one of the most common types of individual legal cases that we take forward for people. Unfortunately, they can happen a lot, and the impact can be severe given the nature of the information that they store and process.

If your data has been shared and you did not agree to it being shared in the way that it was, or at all, we may be able to help you. We can offer free, no-obligation advice as a leading firm of consumer action and data breach compensation specialists.

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August 21, 2018

My voice is my password system raises eyebrows

There has been some recent controversary over the government’s use of the ‘my voice is my password’ system.

Privacy campaigners have reportedly called for HRMC to delete the millions of recordings they hold for people who use the ‘my voice is my password’ system because they’ve failed to gain clear and proper consent from users of the system. The government say that the system is secure, and they have relied on implied consent; but privacy watchdogs are concerned over consent, security and storage.

Eyebrows have certainly been raised…

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