Ibukun adebayo biography of mahatma

Ibukun Adebayo had been working at charity Turning Point for nine years when what should have been an innocent task caused the IT director’s career to come crashing down at the social enterprise supporting those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, learning disabilities and mental health problems.

In March 2013 a Turning Point employee made a subject access request under the Data Protection Act to locate messages on the charity’s email system.

As IT director and head of information security, Adebayo was asked to carry out the request. To avoid revealing private emails from other employees who shared the first name of the person who had made the request, she used her own name to test the search tool.

“In the preview pane, the first email I saw was a sexual email about me and I thought, oh my God,” says Adebayo.

“Then I scrolled down and I read five emails and I thought, oh my goodness.”

The emails she discovered included messages from deputy chi