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Unite ordered to disclose details of its users for a second time after failing to do it properly first time round – Manish Patel v Unite, High Court

8 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

During the British Airways cabin crew strike, Mr Patel had acted as a volunteer cabin crew member. Allegedly as a result of his actions, he was the subject of defamatory allegations posted on a forum on...

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New data protection proposals announced for the EU

1 February 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has launched the European Commission’s proposals for the reform of the data protection regime in the EU, with the aim of increasing a person’s...

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ICO fines Midlothian Council £140,000 for sending details about children and carers to wrong people

1 February 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined Midlothian Council £140,000 for sending sensitive personal data about children and carers to the wrong people on five separate occasions in the first...

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Deleted email on back-up system “held” and should be disclosed under Environmental Information Regulations – Keiller v Information Commissioner, Information Tribunal

1 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

A request was made to the University of East Anglia for the release of a copy of an email. The email attached information that was being used to support a claim that academics from the University had manipulated...

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Sussex hospital facing £375,000 fine after hard drives with thousands of patient data ended up on eBay

13 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

Following on from the Information Commissioner Office targeting the health sector for enforcement action for breaches of the Data Protection Act, the ICO has written to Brighton General Hospital proposing...

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Health sector tops list for focus of data protection regulator’s enforcement

5 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

The health sector tops the list of areas targeted for enforcement by the Information Commissioner's Office. This is in the ICO's latest information rights strategy. As well as health are the credit and...

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Atos to provide service that will enable comparison of data across GP practices in England – but privacy campaigners complain again

21 December 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Atos has been engaged to provide an £8m service through a computer system so as to extract data about patients from GPs’ surgeries and enable comparable extractions across the NHS. The Department of...

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ICO fines Welsh council for data protection breach

21 December 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a fine of £130,000 to Powys County Council in Wales for data protection breaches. The council sent a child protection report to a member of the...

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Data Protection Board to be set up to oversee the changed data protection regime in Europe

19 December 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The recent proposals to update the data protection laws across the European Union (EU) have brought much comment and debate in the UK (see here and here). The EU Justice Commissioner has now announced...

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Hospital pays data protection compensation after employee unlawfully accesses patient data – Grinyer v Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust, County Court

9 December 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Plymouth Hospital NHS Trust has been ordered to pay one of its patients damages for breach of the Data Protection Act after one of its staff had unlawfully accessed the patient’s details, contrary to...

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