Personal Data of Former Employees on Company Website (2019-12-17)

Summary

This is a published case summary from the Cayman Islands Ombudsman describing an informal resolution under data protection complaint handling. It is not a rule or policy statement but an illustrative outcome from a specific complaint investigation.

• Complaint: Four former employees asked a company to delete their professional profiles from its website after they were no longer associated with it, and the company refused.
• Investigation focus: The Ombudsman's office investigated whether the data controller for the website's personal data was a Cayman-based entity.
• Resolution: During the investigation the website was taken down, the personal data was no longer processed, and the case was closed with no further action required.

The summary is informational, illustrating how a data protection complaint about former employees' personal data on a company website was resolved without formal enforcement action.

Applies to

data controllers, companies operating websites containing personal data