Author: Matt McConville

GDPR Team

Ian Kyle

Director

Matt McConville

Senior Associate

Lee Wall

Associate

Damien Gill

Senior Associate

Joseph Waters

Solicitor

Regulator Leave Spreadsheet Accessible Online

Background

Mr Matthew McConville, the Head of our specialised Data Breach Department at Irvings Law has successfully represented a client against a regulator in a data breach claim. The parties (as settlement has been agreed on a confidential basis) are anonymised for the purposes of this case report; Mr McConville’s client as ‘A’ and the regulator as ‘B’.

A realised that B had created a spreadsheet containing his sensitive information and unfortunately made this accessible on their website to all the public over the internet. Unhappy with this, A sought expert legal data breach specialist experience and found Irvings Law.

Representation

Without hesitation, Mr McConville offered to act for A on a no win, no fee basis and once instructed, Mr McConville lodged a claim to B given that they had breached/invaded A’s privacy under the Human Rights Act, had breached the Data Protection Act 2018/the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as confidence following their misuse of private information pertaining to A.

Resolution

Upon receipt of this, B wished to engage in settlement discussions and after tough negotiation from Mr McConville on behalf of A, settlement of £8,000.00 was reached without Court proceedings needing to be served.

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