Employee data breaches – claim compensation

You could be eligible to claim compensation on a No Win, No Fee basis for employee data breaches, and we may be able to represent you for a legal case now.

Our team is happy to provide free, no-obligation legal advice, and you can start the process for this by contacting our team here now. We can often tell you quickly if your case is one that we can proceed with for you and, if you want to instruct us on the first call, you are free to be able to do so if we can help you.

Claim compensation for employee data breaches

You could be entitled to claim GDPR compensation for employee data breaches if your right to privacy has been breached as a result of your information being misused or exposed.

Many employee data breaches are caused as a result of the negligence of their behaviour or activities. This could involve failing to follow data protection policies that an organisation has in place, or it could simply be an accident or an oversight that has caused a leak of information. We know that, in some cases, it is a matter of an employee intentionally breaching the law when they snoop on information, which is a serious matter.

The GDPR can allow anyone whose information has been misused or exposed to recover damages for any distress that has been caused by the loss of control of personal information. The first place to start is to contact our team for free, no-obligation legal advice here now.

How to pursue a legal case

Starting the process to pursue compensation for employee data breaches is first about engaging in a free claims assessment which you can do by contacting us here now.

We can then assess the circumstances and make an informed decision as to whether we believe your case is one that might have merits to succeed. If we believe that there is a good enough chance that your claim could succeed, that is when we can offer to represent you for a legal claim on a No Win, No Fee basis. Next, we can write to the defendant once you have provided your instructions for us to proceed with the case, and we can ask them to accept liability for what has happened.

If the defendant accepts liability, it is then a case of valuing your claim based on the extent and severity of any distress that has been caused. If there are any financial losses or expenses to account for, we can also consider these. Conversely, if the defendant attempts to defend the case, we can fight your corner and do all we can to overturn such a decision in our efforts to obtain an award for you.

Police National Computer data breaches

Police National Computer data breaches can fall within the scope of employee data breaches, and there have been incidents in the past in which employees have accessed information when they should not have done so.

Ultimately, anyone who has access to incredibly personal and sensitive information that can be found on the Police National Computer Databases must only access such information when there is a legitimate reason to do so. Simply accessing information out of curiosity or when it is not in the course of a person’s employment can constitute a breach of the GDPR. If that happens, a victim whose right to privacy has been breached could be entitled to recover compensation.