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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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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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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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Councils need counselling for better data protection

28 November 2011 | Paul Gershlick

There have been 1,035 cases of personal data loss by 132 councils in the past three years. These are the findings of Big Brother Watch, after it had submitted a freedom of information request to ascertain...

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ICO publishes briefing on the future of data protection in the EU

25 November 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published a briefing outlining the European Commission’s (EC) proposals to reform the Data Protection Directive, and sets out its views on a number of...

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EU Justice Minister signals massive overhaul towards far stricter data protection laws for business

17 November 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Businesses will need to obtain explicit prior consent from individuals before processing data about them and give them the right to have their data deleted at any time especially if they post data on the...

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New Midata collaboration between large private sector groups, BIS and Information Commissioner hands back control of data to consumers

16 November 2011 | Paul Gershlick

A new scheme in which consumers will be empowered to manage data held about them by large private sector organisations such as Google and British Gas is going to be launched in 2012. Midata is the result...

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School and Union sign undertakings with Information Commissioner after unencrypted laptops with sensitive personal data on them are stolen

17 October 2011 | Paul Gershlick

The Association of School and College Leaders and Holly Park School have signed separate undertakings with the Information Commissioner’s Office after laptops containing sensitive personal data had been...

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NHS Trust accidentally leaves 10,000 patients’ records in waste disposal room for shredding

11 October 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Over 10,000 records of hospital patients and staff were presumed to have been accidentally destroyed after Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust had temporarily stored them in a waste disposal room and then...

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Latest news and views tagged data protection directive

New data protection proposals announced for the EU

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

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

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

Councils need counselling for better data protection

ICO publishes briefing on the future of data protection in the EU

EU Justice Minister signals massive overhaul towards far stricter data protection laws for business

New Midata collaboration between large private sector groups, BIS and Information Commissioner hands back control of data to consumers

School and Union sign undertakings with Information Commissioner after unencrypted laptops with sensitive personal data on them are stolen

NHS Trust accidentally leaves 10,000 patients’ records in waste disposal room for shredding

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