The information commissioner Elizabeth Denham is particularly concerned as the information was obtained by rival gang members.
An ICO report into the breach details how since 2014 Newham YOT has shared a redacted version of the Metropolitan Police's "gangs matrix" database to council departments and other organisations, including children's and education services, the National Probation Service, the charity Fight for Peace and the Department for Work and Pensions.
But in January 2017, a YOT manager forwarded an unredacted version containing a raft of personal details such as names, nicknames and addresses of 203 people, 80 of whom were either no longer gang members or were simply a victim of gang crime.
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