Someone over in CCHQ will be in trouble today as an email sent round encouraging members to submit their registration for this years Conservative Party Conference shared hundreds of email addresses. It appears the CCHQ staffer who sent the round robin didn’t know how to BCC the recipients, CCing them instead. So anyone who has seen the email can also find everyone else on the chain’s addresses. A major breach of GDPR…
Failure to use BCC in email chains has caused trouble for organisations before. The Central YMCA made the same mistake. They were fined £7,500 earlier this year and issued a reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office. An expensive blunder…
UPDATE:
A Conservative Party spokesman said: “We are aware of an issue relating to a conference registration email and are currently investigating the cause of this. We apologise to those affected and have self-reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office.”
Overheard by a co-conspirator in Parliament, minister Chris Bryant speaking to Tory MP Paul Holmes:
“You must be happy now that all the bastards are leaving.”