data breach

[LondonManc]

Clearly.
Can't see these types of insurance helping

Car I agree, but if your home is potentially under threat (or at least your occupancy thereof), it may be worth checking.

More chance asking Lionel Hutz than CUK

[Fred Bloggs]

Clearly.
Can't see these types of insurance helping

Funnily enough, I have experience here. When I was employed by a multi national big co, I made a complaint via my union. They failed to help. But my house insurance legal assistance policy appointed a well known London legal firm to look at my case. They wrote to my employer, who promptly back tracked. I got a years salary if I agreed to redundancy and signed a compromise agreement. So, I'd say it is very worthwhile following up if you have legal cover.

[unixman]

Are you sure about this? Anything to back it up or explain why this will work? You may be right but I'm struggling to believe legal cover on car insurance is going to help when your business stole data from a client.

Yes, in the past both my house and car cover have included this. It may seem odd but perhaps explained by insurers wanting to sell you every insurance they possibly can. Worth checking anyway.

At another time I went though an protracted employment dispute, giving me cause to research the above. Unfortunately I didn't have cover in place, so had to pay the solicitor myself. Still won the case though (the company settled on terms favourable to me).

[MrMarkyMark]

Interesting guys, still seems very odd to me too, probably why I'm not in the insurance game.

[SueEllen]

Interesting guys, still seems very odd to me too, probably why I'm not in the insurance game.

Legal assistance is an add on the insurance companies tend to make money out of as most people don't use it.

As an insurance provider you can bundle products from different suppliers to make your offering of insurance more appealing to your target market.

[SueEllen]

Yeah but you were acting on behalf of your company and stole it in that capacity.

Nope.

If you steal defence information you definitely won't be acting on behalf of your company, which is why they put the individual working on the contract through security clearance not all the company directors. Same with financial and government information - how did you think the press got their stories?

Other industries make you sign an NDA as an individual. So while your company has one in it's contract, you as an individual also has one.

Industries with confidential information are well aware of people trying to hide behind the corporate veil to steal information.

[northernladuk]

That makes sense. Thanks.

[WTFH]

Yup, and the NDA (and any ClientCo security paperwork) will trump your contract, or anything the agent has.

[PurpleGorilla]

Nope.

If you steal defence information you definitely won't be acting on behalf of your company, which is why they put the individual working on the contract through security clearance not all the company directors. Same with financial and government information - how did you think the press got their stories?

Other industries make you sign an NDA as an individual. So while your company has one in it's contract, you as an individual also has one.

Industries with confidential information are well aware of people trying to hide behind the corporate veil to steal information.

Official Secrets Act

[tim123]

No we don't.

We know it's "just" project docs. I've seen a lot of project documents contain valuable data, including contact details.

So what you are saying is that someone (working on a specific project) has (may have) taken some project specific documents which just happen to contain the name, address and phone numbers (any other personal details) of other people working on that same project, and that act is a data breach?

I think that's pretty far fetched, because surely the dissemination of those details to other people involved with the project is exactly why you might want these details to be there in the first place.

If anyone is guilty of a data protection "crime" in this scenario, it will be the company for not correctly documenting/protecting the use that they were going to make of the data when they asked their employee for it, not the project numpty who copies it into his personal address book.

tim