Ravi Naik

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(Clockwise from top left), Iain Duncan Smith, Jade Jones , Ben Stokes , Nadiya Hussain , Elton John , Gabby Logan

the online publication Of the addresses of More Than 1,000 New Year , the recipient is a "complete disaster", a former minister has said Honors.

Iain Duncan Smith, who was knighted, said the Minister to questions necessary to be very serious questions "about" as it happened, during a former Civil Service chief called it a "serious error".

The Cabinet Office has apologized and says it is to investigate.

Details of celebrities, high-ranking police officials and politicians were published.

The List of 1,097 honors recipient - was uploaded to an official website on Friday Evening and removed on Saturday.

Most of the entries in the table including full addresses, including house numbers and zip codes. The Cabinet Office , said that the document was visible for about an hour.

the Former head of public service Mr Kerslake told the BBC the government might after a complaint from those whose addresses were published, as well as from The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

"At The Point when people are released, very excited about the honor and I am proud of The Information , as it is, is really Bad News .

"So I can see why you (the honoree), there might be very worried.

"But even if the person is not in the claim, it forwards The Information , the Commissioner has to investigate, and we know that in other cases where there is significant data in relation to the potential fines are very large Indeed . "

Jade Jones , from Flintshire, won the said that gold in London 2012 and four years later in Rio de Janeiro

Mr Kerslake, who treated the awards as "very good and effective," during his time, but it was not, to his successor, Sir Mark Sedwill "you should, in my view, think about the resignation".

And in an interview on Radio 4 's Broadcasting House programme, he suggested "Human Error " could be to blame for the leak, and called the investigators to check whether the employees are trained on data regulation.

the Former Tory leader: "the Minister needs to ask some serious questions involved about how this could happen and why no final checks were carried out before the document was published. "

As work and pensions Secretary Sir Iain controversial changes introduced by the criticism of the benefits System to work, because his knighthood called him the "primary architect of the cruel Universal Credit System , which has pushed thousands of people into poverty".

Sir Iain said, most of his details were already in the Public Domain .

"It's much more about Private Citizens , as participating in the work of The Police or the fight against terrorism or other such sensitive cases, published their addresses," he added.

"Much depends on the setting of the'

There is No Doubt that this is a serious breach of the data protection and the government, all organizations, you should admit, is more familiar with The Law relating to the confidential personal information.

But while some of the celebrities and police officers awarded the honors that you are concerned about your privacy and security, it would have been far more serious if the home addresses had been playing the on The List of gallantry awards in the course of.

The Information Commissioner's Office has yet to be charged, an order registered under the new data protection law in force in the year 2018 - a London pharmacy. to a fine of £275,000 for the negligent storage of sensitive medical data from half a million people

lawyers who think that specializes in data protection, the ICO, like this as a less serious case of a Human Error , and exit the "Cabinet Office " escape with A Warning to improve their practices.

But, you say, a lot now depends on the attitude of those who have seen, to bring your data - you could decide civil claims against the government for the implementation of The Public -domain information, which determined many of them were in private.

Taekwondo world champion Jade Jones , was an OBE, told Bbc News on Saturday evening that they had not been contacted about the violation.

"of Course, mistakes can be made and I know it is dangerous for people to get the addresses out, but, you know, I'm sure you do it with intention.

she Asked whether they find the leak, she replied: "It is scary, but it's a good job, I'm doing taekwondo. "

A government spokesman said: "A version for the New Year Honors of the error was published in 2020, The List will be the recipient addresses.

"The Information is removed as soon as possible.

"We have reported The Matter to the UCI and to all who are directly affected. "

The ICO has said The Power to fine organisations for breaches of data protection, it would be "requests".

data-rights-lawyer Ravi Naik warned that anyone who came across The Information should say, the ICO and not to others, because they themselves could face legal Action .

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Source of news: bbc.com