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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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Employee claims constructive dismissal after resigning following his uploading of CV onto LinkedIn

6 January 2012 | Paul Gershlick

An employee of BG Group has claimed constructive dismissal after resigning following a row over his uploading of his CV onto LinkedIn, the business social networking website. The human resources professional...

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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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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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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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Justice Committee joins Information Commissioner in call for blaggers to face jail

10 November 2011 | Paul Gershlick

The Justice Committee has called for data blaggers to be jailed. Under the Data Protection Act, it is unlawful for someone to knowingly or recklessly obtain or disclose personal data without the data controller’s...

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Latest news and views tagged misuse of data

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

Employee claims constructive dismissal after resigning following his uploading of CV onto LinkedIn

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

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

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

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

Justice Committee joins Information Commissioner in call for blaggers to face jail

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