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Department for Transport Data Storage and Use

Of course it is. It is not clear that the Data Protection Act has been breached in this case, given that the Act is based on eight principles, the seventh of which refers to appropriate safeguards being in place to secure the adequacy of security relating to individuals. In this case, it is clear that there were measures in place, even though they were not effective in this particular instance. We want to learn the lessons from that and to minimise any further risk of loss of data.