Remote working causes new data protection headaches

In one of the DPC's case studies, students were inadvertently given access to a recording of an online video conference, including lecturers' discussion of other students' work. Picture: iStock

An educational institution accidentally shared recordings of student presentations with the students themselves who were then able to view their lecturers’ personal remarks about them, some of which were posted to social media.

That data breach is one of 31 case studies detailed in the annual report of the Data Protection Commission (DPC) published this morning.