15 June 2010
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Trust has signed a formal Undertaking after an excel spreadsheet, containing 917 patients’ pathology results, was emailed via an unsecure address to another department. The spreadsheet was not password …

On April 29, 2010, German data protection authorities issued a resolution regarding the obligations of German data exporters with respect to U.S. data importers that have self-certified under the Safe Harbor program.  By requiring additional diligence …

Charity signs formal undertaking to improve security after theft of laptops with details of 1,000 employees
The Alzheimer’s Society has signed a formal undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office promising to improve its data security after …

The ICO has issued the Party with an enforcement notice ordering it not to make unauthorised calls again. A breach of that order is a criminal offence.
The Conservative, Scottish National and Liberal Democrat parties have …

Royal Dutch Shell Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer  Richard Wiseman’s email correspondence with Shellnews.com’s John Donovan reveal a hopeful and pleading approach to the retrieval of the records and possible personal information of 100,000 Shell …

Google’s “Street View” service faces a new hurdle in Germany, with Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner branding it on Sunday a “million-fold violation of the private sphere” and demanding the internet giant get additional consent from …

On January 11, 2010, the data protection authority of the German federal state of Baden-Wurtemberg issued a press release stating that it had fined the Müller Group €137,500 for illegal retention of health-related data and …

An international court in Strasbourg issued a ruling yesterday that powers allowing UK police to stop and search anyone without reason are in breach of European law. The European Court of Human Rights deemed powers …

Organisations that lose people’s personal data will be liable for fines of up to £500,000 from April, according to the privacy watchdog.
The top fine will only be issued in the most severe cases, the Information …

Two computer servers containing the records of almost 1m patients were stolen from the Children’s University hospital in Temple Street in 2007 and have never been recovered.
The data were far more than that lost on …