Thousands of Afghan data breach victims won’t get any compensation | World | News
Thousands of Afghan on the list of people trying to escape from the Taliban will be rejected compensation after a data leakage. The Ministry of Defense (MOD) insisted that the so -called leaked document was not “possible” that it was not “possible” and announced that it would “defend it firmly” against the expected legal procedures for compensation.
In addition, the security violation of the victims of the proactive compensation paid. The details of the 18,714 applicant for the Afghan Changes and Charitable Policy (Arab) program were announced and up to 100,000 Afghan Taliban retaliation risk. The leak of 2022 cost British taxpayers billions of pounds and triggered a two -year cover with an unprecedented super junk.
It also led to a secret program of the Afghanistan Response Route (Arr) designed to move some affected individuals to the UK.
However, a mode spokesman referred to an independent investigation that concluded that the inclusion of the leaked document would be on sufficient reason for the Taliban targeting.
Hundreds of data protection claims are expected, and this week, the Supreme Court is stood up that a Manchester law firm has already represented hundreds of potential plaintiffs.
Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard announced that MOD would pay compensation of £ 1.6 million for a separate incident that caused misleading Afghan Nationals’ data.
Mr. Pollard said the mode would compensate for each of 265 people affected by the E -Post Blunder in September 2021 up to £ 4,000.
This error caused the government’s information commissioner office (ICO) to be slapped by a fine of £ 350,000.
However, in 2022, ICO decided to take additional actions on more comprehensive violations.
Information commissioner John Edwards said there were very few things we can add in this case because of the already directed “high -level public review” in mode.
A total of 6,900 people will be transported to the UK within the scope of the Arr plan, and related costs are expected to reach £ 850 million.
The violation not only reveals the details of Afghan citizens, but also endangered the personal information of more than 100 British officials, including special forces and MI6 members.
