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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty of £130,000 to Powys County Council for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act where the details of a child protection case were sent to the wrong recipient. The penalty is the highest that the ICO has served since it received the power in April [...]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served monetary penalties to North Somerset Council and Worcestershire County Council after staff at both authorities sent highly sensitive personal information to the wrong recipients. The news comes as the Information Commissioner is pressing for stronger powers to audit data protection compliance across local government and the NHS. The [...]
132 local authorities lose sensitive information including details of children in care New research from privacy and civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch has found how, in the past three years, local authorities have seen at least 1035 incidents of data being lost and stolen. Key findings: 132 authorities involved in 1035 incidents of [...]
Southwark Council breached the Data Protection Act by misplacing a computer and some papers containing 7,200 peoples’ personal information which were discovered in a skip earlier this year, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The computer and papers were mistakenly left at one of the council’s buildings at the Spa Road Complex in Southwark [...]
A Scottish advocate breached the Data Protection Act after failing to encrypt a laptop containing sensitive personal data which was later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The laptop was stolen from the home of Ruth Crawford QC in 2009 when she was away on holiday. It contained personal data relating to a [...]
Oliver Letwin must ensure that he keeps personal information secure or face formal enforcement action, the Information Commissioner has said. Christopher Graham today announced that the West Dorset MP’s disposal of constituency paperwork in public bins constituted a breach of the Data Protection Act. Mr Letwin has signed a written commitment to put changes in [...]
According to Freedom of Information Act requests, between July 2008 and July 2011 there were at least 806 separate incidents where patient medical records were compromised, highlighted a shocking number of incidents in the NHS where patient medical records were accessed inappropriately. This included: 23 incidents of patient information being posted on social networking sites [...]
Newcastle Youth Offending Team breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt a laptop containing personal data which was later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The laptop – which contained personal data relating to 100 young people – was reported stolen from a contractor’s home in the Northumbria area in January. [...]
The Information Commissioner has issued a statement welcoming the support of the Justice Committee. Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham said: “The Government should lose no more time in bringing in appropriate deterrent sentences to combat the unlawful trade in personal data. Lord Justice Leveson’s Inquiry into press standards should not be used as an excuse for [...]
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing patients’ medical information on two separate occasions, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said. In February, records relating to the treatment of 18 patients were found in a communal waste bin at a residential apartment block. The information had been taken home [...]
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