Originally Posted by
Scots_Al
A breach, yes, but in the grand scheme of things, it is a fairly minor breach of the DPA - it affected a limited number of people, and contained a limited amount of personal data.
It shouldn't have happened, but let's not get OTT!
Quite agree, poor form, but fairly minor, and as it's not the information stored on computer that you had access to (rather, a facsimile of it), it would depend on the Information Commissioner's call as to whether a copy of the PIL is a "relevant filing system" as defined under the act.