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How to send sensitive bulk emails
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been fined £180,000 after revealing the email addresses of more than 700 users of an HIV service. This was a classic case of putting all the email addresses of a large circulation … Continue reading
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Royal Free NHS Trust and Google UK
The murky world of Information Governance in the NHS has been further stirred by the story of the arrangements between the Royal Free Trust and Google UK. The BBC and others have reported a “data-sharing agreement” between the two. Google … Continue reading
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NHS Email Armageddon 2016
All intelligent people understand that email and the personal inbox is not a good place to store and manage corporate information. Many organisations will have formal policies which forbid, frown on, or discourage such practices. A small subset of those … Continue reading
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The appeal of Alzheimers
On 5th January 2016 the Information Commissioner (“ICO”) served an Enforcement Notice (“EN”) on the Alzheimer’s Society under s40 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”). The background is set out in the EN and need not be repeated … Continue reading
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Do Children Have Rights (Part 2)
How far can we rely on Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Guidance? I recently commented on the issue of schools internally publicising the performance of pupils. But what about publishing to the world? The concerns expressed below may be more serious … Continue reading
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Do schoolchildren have rights?
My eye was caught recently by this article on the BBC News channel. It seems some, no doubt well-meaning,* Head thought it a good idea to create what was in effect a league table of pupils’ ability by displaying their … Continue reading
Volunteers and Data Protection
The Information Commissioner recently published a report following a series of visits to Victims’ Services Alliance Organisations. These are typically charities but the report is also aimed at non-charitable volutary organisations. One issue touched is the question of identifying who … Continue reading
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Don’t Expect ICO to argue your case
When applying to the Information Commissioner under s50 FOIA to overturn a refusal by a public authority it is important to marshal all your arguments and understand what is available to you. This was illustrated in a decision in September … Continue reading
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Does Alan Duncan MP read his printed emails?
One must assume that Alan Duncan does read his emails but we have recently learned that he does tend to print them out. This possibly reprehensible exercise has led Mr. Duncan to introduce a Private Member’s Bill to outlaw the … Continue reading
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Defamation, Data Protection and Journalism
It has for some time been recognised that, with changes to the law of defamation, there might be increasing use of an alternative cause of action under section 13 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“DPA”). This is not perhaps … Continue reading
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