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A guide to the EPA data under threat by the Trump administration
Several highly publicized campaigns are taking place to save the data maintained by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from becoming inaccessible to the public under the Trump administration. “There…
NHS data loss: 500 patients may have suffered serious harm
Five hundred patients may have suffered serious harm as a result of the NHSmislaying 500,000 test results and letters over a five-year period, ministers and officials have admitted in parliament.…
Another NHS crisis looms – an inability to analyse data
Public institutions such as the National Health Service increasingly want—and are expected—to base their actions on nationally agreed standards, rather than anecdote. The collection and analysis of data, when done…
May pressured NHS to release data to track immigration offenders
The former head of NHS Digital repeatedly clashed with Theresa May’s Home Office over requests to hand over confidential patient data to help trace immigration offenders, he has revealed. Kingsley…
We’re actually not that close to a paperless office
After last month’s report from AIIM, which said we were actually inching closer to a paperless office thanks to the unrelenting digitisation, a new report from Danwood now says exactly…
Cyber Security in 2017
There is much uncertainty surrounding the security industry for 2017, and according to experts in the field, a lot of the trepidation is directly connected to what the nation’s next…
Data Security Predictions
CISOs will shift more investment toward granularly identifying information vs. parametric measures: Depending on your business, digital information on average is doubling every three to nine months. The knee-jerk reaction to…
Two major charities fined by ICO
The ICO has levied fines of £25,000 and £18,000 on the two organisations for breaches of the Data Protection Act The RSPCA is to be fined £25,000 and the British…
ICO Issues New Guidance on Privacy Notices
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the independent authority responsible for the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA), has issued a revised code of practice (the Code) on communicating…
The Future for Data Protection
Ever since the UK held its vote on whether to leave the European Union in June 2016, there has been a huge amount of debate around what the impact will…