Yesterday,
King’s College London (KCL) leaked a list of all the students who had applied
for intercalated BSc's at their university for the current academic year. This
was accidentally sent out in an email to about twenty students. The list
contained – amongst other things – information regarding students' disabilities,
including dyslexia, “mental illness such as depression”, "chronic or
long-standing illness" and "deafness".
This is a
massive breach of KCL’s Data Protection guidance and of the Data Protection Act
of 1998.
In addition to
this list, the document leaked contained all the marks of students studying
medicine at KCL from years 1-4 (together with their name and
candidate number).
Students from
KCL are outraged and are still in the dark as to how this could possibly have
happened. A lot of students are concerned that their personal information is
not securely kept by the KCL administrative staff and many are worried as to
what else could be released in the same way.
KCL have
stated that this was a very regrettable incident and “apologised unreservedly for this error”.
An investigation is currently
underway.
Written by: TL
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