In the USA: The wackiest HIPAA Data Breaches

Does this sound familiar?

http://www.emrandhipaa.com/guest/2014/01/16/the-wackiest-hipaa-data-breaches-of-2013/

PM's Red box left unattended

I wonder how far one would get before being challanged. Seems as somebody forgot his basic mobile working guidelines. Could happen to all of us, but it is a bit more embarising if it is the PM.

http://news.sky.com/story/1139034/cameron-leaves-red-box-on-train-table

FoI response - check for PID

Make sure you check that your FoI responses do not contain Person Identifiable Data. Otherwise you breach the DPA 1998; and the FoI Act 2000 actually. Http://identity.governmentcomputing.com/news/ico-fines-islington-council-over-leak-of-residents-data

GPs to tell patients about data extraction

I wonder how GPs are going to manage to tell all their patients about the opt-out option for the GP data extraction.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/gp-surgeries-must-inform-patients-about-data-plan--or-face-legal-action-8748999.html

I am not sure if it would have been easier (and cheaper) for NHS England and HSCIC to book some advertisement space in newspapers and on local radio?

Do you know where your records are?

NGS England has a job on hand to identify all those old records storage facilities. This incident and fibe does not surprise me. I assume that more fines are on the way.

Let's wait and see... Failure in sweep of old premises costs health body £100,000 in data breach fine

Nursing and Midwifery Council fined £150k by ICO

Again those dreaded DVDs again...

http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/latest_news/2013/nursing-and-midwifery-council-receives-150000-penalty-15022013.aspx

Maybe they should have used encrypted memory stick. They come with hardware encryption and don't cost much anymore

Oh no, not another one

Patients' private files dumped http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21177311