You could be entitled to claim compensation for a data leak in a letter, and we may be able to represent you for a legal case on a No Win, No Fee basis.
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Can you claim compensation for a data leak in a letter?
You could be entitled to claim compensation for a data leak in a letter. The most common breaches that fall into this category usually involve people receiving other people’s information by post. This could be because the letter might be addressed to the correct recipient but contains the information of somebody else. It could also be the case when attachments in a letter are about somebody else, or where more than one letter has been placed into the same envelope.
Whilst such inadvertent data leaks can easily occur, they can still be considered a breach of the GDPR. In cases where particularly personal and sensitive information has been leaked about somebody else in error, the distress that could be caused to the victim could be substantial. Further, if the letter is in relation to financial information, people could be at risk of fraud or theft if the person who receives the data decides to misuse the information.
Even where this does not happen, people sometimes have a habit of simply throwing such letters away and people could still be at risk.
The GDPR can rightly allow victims to claim compensation for any distress that has been caused by the loss of control of personal information. Most people claim for the distress, and it is this that you could be entitled to claim for in a case of this nature.
A recent example of such a data leak: Liverpool City Council
There was a recent example of a data leak in a letter that involved Liverpool City Council reportedly issuing some 10,000 postal correspondences relating to the recent council tax energy rebate. According to media coverage, it is understood that some letters were sent to homes that did not require notification of the rebate because they did not pay direct debit, and some were addressed to the wrong recipients.
Whilst Liverpool City Council has been quick to assure people that nobody will lose out and it will not be possible (they say) for people to claim a rebate on behalf of someone else, this is still a potential data breach. It appears that people’s personal information has been sent to the wrong recipients which is the core of the issue that Liverpool City Council is facing.
This is not the first time that a council or a local authority agency has been engaged in a mass communication data leak of this nature.
Claim compensation for the leakage of personal data
You could be entitled to claim compensation for the leakage of personal data. Whether this is a data leak in a letter, or in some other form, the GDPR could entitle you to recover damages and we may be able to help you now on a No Win, No Fee basis.
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