Ireland: “Library Records of 20 People in Dublin Edited to Include Sexually Explicit Information”

From TheJournal.ie:

Library records 20 people living in north Dublin were altered to add in information of a “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit nature”, the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has found.
The details of the audit of a new system in Malahide Library, Dublin are outlined in the DPC’s latest annual report, published today.
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Shortly before the August 2017 audit of Malahide Library, Fingal County Council contacted the DPC informing it of a recent incident where a library staff member based in another local authority inadvertently came across the borrower record of a library borrower in Fingal which contained data entries of a highly inappropriate, sexually explicit nature.

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See Also: The DPC Annual Report is available here. The section about the Malahide Library is found on page 36.

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