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NHS Patients’ Privacy Breached
Thousands of patients have had their privacy breached after NHS Bournemouth and Poole gave their personal information to a private company. The primary care trust passed on contact details of…
Staff Pensions Records Lost – Council Fined £250k
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that it has issued Scottish Borders Council with a £250,000 fine following the loss of pension records, bank details and salary information. A…
Facebook Suspends Photo Tag Tool in Europe
Facebook has suspended the facial-recognition tool that suggests when registered users could be tagged in photographs uploaded to its website. The move follows a review of Facebook's efforts to implement…
Data losses incur fines of up to £500,000
The Information Commissioner's Office will be able to issue fines of up to £500,000 for serious data security breaches The size of the fine will be determined after an investigation…
Confidential Records Lost
Inquiry call over missing NHS records More than 100 health records - almost half of them in NHS Grampian - went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included…
Commons report praises current Freedom of Information (FOI) system
Supporters of freedom of information will be relieved, but many of its critics will be disappointed. That is the likely reaction to the new report by the Commons Justice Committee,…
Cheshire council discusses historical document storage
Plans to move Cheshire's historical records to a new building are being discussed by councillors. Most of the records, dating back to the 12th Century, are currently held at the…
Council plans new data policy
A new data protection policy has been approved by a council at the centre of two high profile errors. Last year the salary details of about 900 Dumfries and Galloway…
Patients ‘may have suffered’ as records lost
Cancer patients may have died or suffered complications after a leading hospital lost their medical records and then played down the risk of them missing life-saving treatment, it has been…
Health Trust fined £225,000 over patient records breach
The Belfast Health Trust has been fined £225,000 after thousands of patient records were found abandoned in a disused hospital. The Information Commission imposed the fine because the trust failed…