Human Error, Working From Home And Data Protection

"Human error is one of the main causes of data breaches" according to www.gdpr.eu, the European Union's web-guide to the GDPR.

In the old days confidential papers were sometimes left behind on trains, in taxis and in bars. These days most people who have been in employment for more than a few years have missent an email. Mistakes like this are arguably no more culpable than forgetting hard copy documents but the speed and reach of data circulation has changed beyond recognition, so that while the error may be similar the effect is vastly different. Particularly as a consequence of the ubiquity of mobile devices and social media, the impact of human error can be dramatic. British Airways can confirm this: in 2017 the airline suffered an IT meltdown that led to travel chaos for 75,000 passengers as a result of an engineer unplugging the wrong power supply.