The loss of personal data, an example of this would be the recent transgressions of the ministry of justice. In 2015 the ministry of justice failed to safeguard sensitive information about 2,935 prisoners. A hard drive containing information about the prisoner’s links to drug crime, possible leads to organised crime rings and details about the prisoner’s victims and visitors. This hard drive wasn’t encrypted so the information could be easily read by anyone, and so all the personal details could have been leaked or sold on. This incident led to a hefty fine and the result was better safeguarding practice. After the incident, the data handlers encrypt the information before storing it or transferring it, to ensure that it is secure and can’t be accessed even if it is lost.
An example of mis-sold services would be between 2010 and 2013 Santander mis sold investment plans and didn’t explain the investment opportunities to mostly pensioners, most of which were advertised as well established and would double back their money, but in reality were not even proper companies and a lot of the people never saw their money again. When the incident was found out, Santander reimbursed those out of pocket, but this also lead to an increase in …show more content…
In this specific case, customers of Curry’s were told that they must buy an extended warranty with their purchase or they were sold a warranty without them even knowing. If Curry’s deliberately withheld the information that customers do not have to buy a warranty, but had in fact lied to customers and told them that they must, then that is a breach of regulations of the misrepresentation act of 1967. This was classed as negligent misrepresentation, because the store workers said that they thought it was true, though some cases have been found as fraudulent misrepresentation, as they knew it was an incorrect statement when it was
An example of mis-sold services would be between 2010 and 2013 Santander mis sold investment plans and didn’t explain the investment opportunities to mostly pensioners, most of which were advertised as well established and would double back their money, but in reality were not even proper companies and a lot of the people never saw their money again. When the incident was found out, Santander reimbursed those out of pocket, but this also lead to an increase in …show more content…
In this specific case, customers of Curry’s were told that they must buy an extended warranty with their purchase or they were sold a warranty without them even knowing. If Curry’s deliberately withheld the information that customers do not have to buy a warranty, but had in fact lied to customers and told them that they must, then that is a breach of regulations of the misrepresentation act of 1967. This was classed as negligent misrepresentation, because the store workers said that they thought it was true, though some cases have been found as fraudulent misrepresentation, as they knew it was an incorrect statement when it was