Alleged data breach by Vince Cable’s constituency office
Vince Cable, the Government’s business secretary, has apologised after confidential documents and personal data of his constituents were discovered in transparent recycling bags over a nine-month...
View ArticleICO fines Midlothian Council £140,000 for sending details about children and...
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 six...
View ArticleInformation Commissioner calls again for prison sentences for data blagging
The Information Commissioner – the UK’s data protection regulator – has called again for the introduction of prison sentences for data blagging. Data blagging is the obtaining personal data from a data...
View ArticleBarnet Council fined £70,000 for theft of highly confidential papers about...
Barnet Borough Council has been fined £70,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after highly sensitive papers about child sex abuse cases were stolen at home from a social worker, who stored...
View ArticleAnother NHS Trust fined by ICO for data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined an NHS Trust £60,000 for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust did not keep the details of a...
View ArticleLocal authority fined £250,000 after employee records dumped in supermarket...
Scottish Borders Council has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office. Its crime? An outsourced service provider whom it engaged to digitise employee records dumped the hard...
View ArticleNHS Trust continues to endure ICO wave of success
The Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust has lost its appeal against a monetary penalty of £90,000 imposed by the Information Commissioner’s Office in April 2012 for sending patient lists to...
View ArticleNursing and Midwifery Council become latest to be hit with massive data...
Just when you thought the Information Commissioner’s Office might have been becoming more sympathetic to the plight of the public and charity sectors, fear not – we can report yet another massive fine...
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