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Denbighshire: Council privacy blunders exposed

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Dissent

The North Wales Daily Post reports:

A lost iPad containing confidential minutes and client records that were accidentally destroyed included in a report to be tabled next week

A list of addresses were lost in a street and an iPad was left on a plane in a catalogue of Data Protection Act breaches.

Minutes of a Protection of Vulnerable Adults (PoVA) meeting also went astray at Glan Clwyd Hospital after being sent by recorded delivery.

The blunders have been revealed in a report which will go before Denbighshire County Council’s Corporate Governance Committee next week.

Read more on North Wales Daily Post.

Reading their article, my sense is that the breaches are pretty much what we’d expect in the way of “human error” breaches. And I’m actually impressed that they had installed software on iPads that enabled them to activate remote wipe on loss and that they appointed a Corporate Information Manager.

All in all, it appears that they are being transparent about mistakes and they take steps to improve their performance. Good for them!

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