
Data protection, rights and access: Accidental confidentiality breaches
Could this happen to you? The news is full of accidental personal or sensitive personal data leaks due to careless data management practices.
NHS Trust facing £375,000 fine over theft of patient data
"The Information Commissioner is proposing to issue its heaviest ever fine for a breach of UK data protection laws. It proposes fining a health body after patient records were stolen from a hospital and sold on eBay." 12 Jan 2012 From: Out-law.com
Report into dysfunctional households breached ethical standards, claims researcher
"Using freedom of information requests, Nick Bailey, a lecturer in the University of Glasgow's school of social and political sciences, claims that the head of the Troubled Families Unit, Louise Casey, did not 'seek or obtain ethical approval' from families interviewed in a much-heralded report published in July.
"Bailey also points out that while the names of the 16 families interviewed had been changed, the details on the number, age and gender of children had not, making it possible to identify them." 24 Oct 2012From: The Guardian
Police force pays £120,000 penalty for data breach
"An ICO investigation into a data breach at Greater Manchester Police has concluded with the force being fined for failing to take appropriate measures against the loss of personal data.
"The action was prompted by the theft of a memory stick containing sensitive personal data from an officer’s home. The device, which had no password protection, contained details of more than a thousand people with links to serious crime investigations." 16 Oct 2012 From: Information Commissioner's Office
Writing a data management plan by Edina, University of Edinburgh, modified by Glasgow Caledonian University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/introduction.html.