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Another week, another easily prevented data protection breach in the news. This time it is the Glasgow based charity Enable Scotland that is under the spotlight. From the ICO news release: A Scottish charity – based in Glasgow – breached the Data Protection Act after two unencrypted memory sticks and papers containing the personal details […]