UK email mistake put ‘lives at risk’ for Afghans who had worked with British military

The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) put the lives of Afghans who had helped the British military “at risk” with an email error, according to a monetary penalty notice from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The data protection regulator fined the MoD £350,000 ($443,000) last year for exposing data that could have enabled the

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