Is UK Government Privacy Training Adequate?
Verrimus TSCM specialists question whether the Government privacy training provided to UK Ministers is fit for purpose.
“The Johnson, Truss and now Sunak governments have all had publicly revealed issues with information security. For Boris Johnson’s administration it was the extensive use of WhatsApp to discuss and make COVID policy. This morphed into the use of WhatsApp to share gossip and arrange social events in Whitehall, all of which was highlighted by the Sue Gray report.
Liz Truss allegedly had her personal mobile phone hacked by Russia state actors over this summer. And finally, the Sunak government has immediately been beset by the ongoing revelations about Home Secretary, Suella Braverman’s use of her personal email account to share restricted government documents with a fellow parliamentarian: deemed to be a breach of the ministerial code by Liz Truss.”
With the amount of ‘alleged’ privacy breaches and ‘mistakes’ and ‘misuse’ of communication methods by Government Ministers, that have reached the media we can probably assume there are a number that haven’t yet come to light. Serious questions need to be asked as to whether the training and advice that is being provided to UK Government personnel is fit for purpose. Is the information and training sufficient? If so, then why is it being ignored?