Out-Law.com reports: A former police officer’s claim for a £20,000 damages award to be significantly increased to reflect the distress he suffered as a result of the theft of his sensitive personal data has been rejected by a court in Northern Ireland. The former Special Branch officer, referred to only as ‘CR19’ in the judgment…
Tax refund fraud schemes – 60 Minutes reports
Last night, Steve Kroft’s episode on 60 Minutes looked at ID theft and tax refund fraud schemes. You can read the transcript here.
UK: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust signs undertaking with ICO
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. This follows an investigation into two separate incidents involving disclosures of personal data. The first reported incident involved a file containing personal data relating to approximately 4,200 service users being unintentionally…
UK: Police accused of cover-up over theft of video interviews with abuse victims
This is one of those really terrible breaches that are the stuff of nightmares. Brendan Carlin reports: Vulnerable victims of sex crimes have reacted with panic and fury after highly sensitive videos of their police interviews were stolen in an ‘unacceptable’ breach of security. The theft of computers containing the statements sparked disbelief among witnesses…
Not just policies and padlocks: how inadvertent errors in handling medical records can lead to trouble
Peter Leonard of Gilbert & Tobin writes: On 13 December 2013, the Australian Privacy Commissioner (the Commissioner) opened an own motion investigation into Pound Road Medical Centre (PRMC). This was in response to media reports that there were boxes of unsecured medical records at 16 Amberley Park Drive, Narre Warren South (the site), which PRMC…
KR: Regulator to further penalize Kookmin, CitiBank
Chung Ah-young reports: The financial regulator said Sunday that it may impose additional penalties on officials responsible for large-scale data thefts that occurred earlier this year. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said that it will hold a disciplinary review committee meeting on Oct. 2 to discuss the severity of sanctions towards executives and employees of…