Manager sharing home addresses among wider team

[SunshineandRavioli]

Just looking for a bit of advice really. My manager (not direct line manager, but their manager, I.e. manager of wider team) recently shared everyone's personal home address in a spreadsheet asking everyone to check if their details were up to date. This was to in excess of 40 colleagues. AIBU to think this is a bit of GDPR issue? I would expect HR to check this information with me and don't mind management having access to it, but I have young children, don't know these wider team of people, am very private & don't believe this should have been shared without permission? Interested to see what anyone else thinks, TIA

This is Work, not AIBU. But you're correct.

OP- do you work somewhere I used to!?!?

I was presented with a laminated card which had the entire companies (10 ish staff) home numbers and mobiles on- incase it was needed! No one was asked though.

A few months after starting, I was given my own business' cards- which I knew nothing about and wasn't given a chance to proof read. They included my own, personal mobile number, I had no work mobile and they'd spelt my name wrong.

I would absolutely bring this up OP with HR. Its an invasion of privacy, not to mention against GDPR.

It is a breach.

Do you intend to do anything, raise with HR, and/or report to the ICO?

This is wrong.

We have a phone number list (hospital) for our team that we circulate very carefully which I maintain (because we have no sodding admin staff) and I am very careful to get permission from each new person I add to it and whenever I update it I check with the rest of the team that they are happy to stay on it.

@MykonosMaiden thank you 👍

@CC4712 wow that's awful! 😮 I think this is potentially in relation to reordering business cards but this information wasn't shared when sending out the first batch; I know we've had a few leavers & starters since then but still believe it's poor form to allow everyone access to this 🤷‍♀️ thank you for replying 😊

@Clarice99 I thought so, my husband works in HR & he said they have to jump through hoops to share an address if someone wants to send a team member a maternity or leaving present, or sympathy flowers, even then they are wary, they wouldn't routinely share addresses at all! I think I will bring it up with HR, thank you 👍

@TrishTrix that's very considerate of you, despite it being so very important you still make the effort to ensure everyone is comfortable with this 👍

Thank you all for taking the time to reply x

Clear breach of GDPR. There was absolutely no need to send everyone's address in a spreadsheet. If they needed to get people to check, each person should have received an email with their own personal details and no-one else's.

It was pretty thoughtless. The correct appt would have been to contact people individually.

Definite GDPR breach and needs reporting.

I’d be carpeted if I shared info about my team in that way!

Clear GDPR breach and cpuod potentially pose a risk say if you had a colleague interested in you or yiu had fallen out with and yiu didn't want them knowing your address.
Yiu cpuod make a complaint to your DP officer.