00:03The Information Commissioner's Office said the Met's policies were weak and had serious
00:09shortcomings. One officer involved had not completed data protection training for more
00:14than four years before they broke data rules. In one case, a woman had to move house and
00:21change her phone number after a Metropolitan Police officer sent her details to a defendant
00:26in a stalking protection order case. It also wrongly sent out the names and contact details
00:33of three witnesses to the defendant. The defendant later contacted the victim on her new phone number
00:39and said he had received documents containing her new contact details from police. In the other
00:46incident involving the alleged honey trap of former Conservative MP William Ragg, the Met's emailed all
00:53of the people affected to tell them of a change to the suspect's bail date. However, in doing
00:58so they did not blind copy or hide the names of all of those being contacted, so all recipients
01:05could see each other's names and email addresses. The ICO said this meant highly sensitive information
01:12could potentially be inferred about the recipients, even though the body of the email did not explicitly
01:18contain that information. It added that 18 people linked to Parliament were, ultimately, affected.
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