Council fined £250K after pension records found in supermarket bin

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Scottish Borders Council has been fined £250,000 after former employees' pension records were found in an overflowing recycling bin in a supermarket car park.

The council had employed a third party to digitise the records, but did not seek guarantees that the data would be kept secure, the Information Commissioner's Office found. More than 600 files c...

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