Thomas urges company bosses to take full responsibility for data protection safeguards particularly when data loss can cause serious damage to the reputation of organisations.
"The more databases that are set up and the more information exchanged from one place to another, the greater the risk of things going wrong," he said.
The more you centralise data collection, the greater the risk of multiple records going missing or wrong decisions about real people being made," he added.
"Put simply, holding huge collections of personal data brings significant risks," he added.
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