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UK: Fertility patient data breach fine would have been much higher under GDPR

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Dissent

John Bryan uses a recent monetary penalty by the Information Commissioner’s Office to contrast what might happen to fines under the GDPR.

Fertility patients being treated at the Lister Hospital, part of the US-based HCA Healthcare group, discovered in April 2015 that transcripts of their confidential patient-doctor conversations were publicly available on the world wide web. After an investigation by the UK’s data protection authorities, HCA’s UK arm, was fined £200,000 for the hospital’s breach.

HCA Healthcare UK, the private hospital group, incurred a £200,000 fine – a significant amount of money but less than half the maximum they could have faced under the Data Protection Act of £500,000. However, HCA Healthcare UK can thank their lucky stars that the new EU-wide data protection regime (GDPR) isn’t in force yet.

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