Home Office pays out £15,500 to asylum seeker over data breach

Sensitive information given by government staff to officials in man’s Middle East home country The Home Office has paid out £15,500 in compensation after admitting handing over sensitive information about an asylum seeker to the government of his Middle East home country, a move which could have endangered his life and that of his family. The settlement relates to confidential proof of his persecution in his home country which was wrongly shared with the authorities there. The case h