Too much access and privacy breaches

In an increasingly digitised age, the issue of too much access to information by employees could lead to privacy breaches, and victims could be eligible to pursue compensation.

Read on for advice, and make sure to contact our team for free, no-obligation legal help in respect of a claims assessment for your case today.

There is such a thing as too much access

There is such a thing as too much access in respect of employees being able to look at or alter information in vast servers and databases accessible in their place of work. In fact, the issue of what could be called over-permission for staff has been put down as a key reason why there are so many privacy breach incidents, particularly over the last few years as the world has become much more digitised.

In terms of the GDPR, the law stipulates that organisations have an important responsibility to control and manage the information that they store and process. Data should only be accessed and processed if there is a legitimate reason to do so, and there are many steps that need to be taken to make sure that this can be enforced.

A simple one is ensuring that there are policies, practices, procedures, and training in place so employees know what they can and cannot do with the information they can access. However, this does not always go far enough, and updated policies and training should happen at routine intervals. On top of that, there should be systems in place to manage authorisation, as well as auditing to keep an eye on any activity that could constitute a breach of the GDPR. Access restrictions are fairly simple to achieve these days owing to modern technology, so that is also a key consideration to prevent issues surrounding too much access to information.

Claiming privacy breach compensation

If you have been the victim of a privacy breach incident that stemmed from an employee having too much access to your information, you could be eligible to pursue compensation.

If you take some of the examples listed above in respect of what organisations can do, if it is the case that they failed to do one or more of those, they could be in breach of the GDPR. If they are in breach of the GDPR, that is when you could be entitled to claim compensation.

If we can show that there has been a breach and that you have been the victim of negligence, that is when you could be eligible to win damages. Your data breach compensation pay-out could be based on any distress caused by the loss of control of your personal information, as well as any losses and expenses, if applicable. Most people pursue compensation just for the distress alone, and our average compensation settlement – which is mainly for individual clients pursuing distress – is just over £6,000.

The first place to start to find out if we can help you today is to contact us for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

Claiming compensation for the leakage of personal data

You could be entitled to claim compensation for the leakage of personal data. If any information has been misused and has subsequently been exposed as a result of some kind of privacy breach, the distress that you could suffer could be significant.

Any heightened distress caused by the leakage of personal data can be factored into a claim for compensation.

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