Data protection issue

[DaveB]

Employees’ personal data should be kept safe, secure and up to date by an employer.
Data an employer can keep about an employee includes:

1. Name
2. Address
3. Date of birth
4. Sex
5. Education and qualifications
6. Work experience
7. National Insurance number
8. Tax code
9. Details of any known disability
10. Emergency contact details

If you think your data has been misused or that the organisation holding it hasn’t kept it secure, you should contact them and tell them.

Employment Law Solicitors can investigate your claim and take action against anyone who’s misused personal data.

No employee's involved here, so no relevance for employment law.

If you are the Kate Steele from Capsticks solicitors you should go have a read of the site T&C's.

[KateSteele]

Hello
Bit of advice for a newbie please��

My wife is a shareholder in my company but not an employee or director. My online accountants sent me my usual remittance email (including salary and expenses) but for no reason have copied my wife's email in. I have queried it and they are likely to respond tomorrow.

Does anyone have any advice on how I should proceed, this a clear breach of my personal information as I have never requested this before. This is clearly a serious matter but not sure what to do. I just don't want to let them off with this as it is a serious violation in my eyes of my data protection.

Thanks

Employees’ personal data should be kept safe, secure and up to date by an employer.
Data an employer can keep about an employee includes:

1. Name
2. Address
3. Date of birth
4. Sex
5. Education and qualifications
6. Work experience
7. National Insurance number
8. Tax code
9. Details of any known disability
10. Emergency contact details

If you think your data has been misused or that the organisation holding it hasn’t kept it secure, you should contact them and tell them.

Employment Law Solicitors can investigate your claim and take action against anyone who’s misused personal data.

[tarbera]

Just send a stiff email or phone them up to highlight the issue/principle. Sounds a trivial oversight to me, not something to start bleating about "serious data policy breach".

Agreed, totally trivial oversight, I think the OP expects someone to resign over it or a police investigation

[Jessica@WhiteFieldTax]

Check their terms of business. My firms terms of business include a specific authorisation for us to communicate with spouse and other shareholders, precisely to cover this type of issue. In practice a common sense approach applies, and what we may share depends on the relationship of the parties.

[d000hg]

Just send a stiff email or phone them up to highlight the issue/principle. Sounds a trivial oversight to me, not something to start bleating about "serious data policy breach".

[newmove]

Are you heissinberg?

[jmo21]

How did they get her email address?

[TheFaQQer]

Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't being a shareholder entitles her to access company records?

Certain records, yes. But not to the level of salary and expenses paid to other shareholders.

Otherwise, I'd be busy finding out how much everyone earns at all the companies I own shares in.

[sal]

My wife is a shareholder in my company but not an employee or director

Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't being a shareholder entitles her to access company records?

Even if that's not the case, yours is a bit of an overreaction. You can always change your accountant, you don't need a petty excuse like this one.

[hallb5]

I actually don't mind her knowing and she gets a percentage of the dividends. It's the principle of the matter that they have shared my data without asking, it's a pretty basic flaw

[northernladuk]

It's only a serious matter if your wife didn't know how much you were taking out of the company.

[Boney M]

really?

[hallb5]

Hello
Bit of advice for a newbie please😄

My wife is a shareholder in my company but not an employee or director. My online accountants sent me my usual remittance email (including salary and expenses) but for no reason have copied my wife's email in. I have queried it and they are likely to respond tomorrow.

Does anyone have any advice on how I should proceed, this a clear breach of my personal information as I have never requested this before. This is clearly a serious matter but not sure what to do. I just don't want to let them off with this as it is a serious violation in my eyes of my data protection.

Thanks