Nick Spoors reports: One member of staff was sacked and another severely reprimanded for accessing details of Northampton General Hospital patients they were not treating, a new report reveals. The report on data breaches at NGH in 2011, said measures were now in place to guard against information falling into the wrong hands, but warned…
Month: March 2012
UK: ICO reveals four new undertakings following data breaches
From the ICO: Durham University breached the Data Protection Act after disclosing personal information in training materials published on its website, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The personal data was contained in screenshots used to demonstrate the use of particular University systems and included details such as names, addresses and dates of birth…