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Europe Data Protection Digest | UK charity mistakenly exposes private emails Related reading: IAPP Westin Scholar finds evolving privacy law 'exciting'

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Mermaids, a U.K. advocacy group and charity, endured a personal information compromise of its own doing, ZDNet reports. The organization mistakenly posted nearly 1,100 emails to its system and made an "inadvertent" data breach by making them publicly accessible. The messages exposed "intimate details of the vulnerable youngsters it [the charity] seeks to help," along with names, addresses and telephone numbers of those who wrote the leaked messages. In a statement, the charity wrote that the emails stemmed from a "private user group," and "the information could not be found unless the person searching for the information was already aware that the information could be found." The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office has been informed of the situation.
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