The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a £98,000 penalty to Tuckers Solicitors based in London. The solicitors firm suffered a ransomware attack where confidential information including, PII and case material was lost. UK lawyer fined for not patching fast enough before attack • The Register
The ICO steps in – The Scottish Government needs to be more transparent with respect to citizen’s personal information and the COVID-19 app
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a written reprimand to both the Scottish Government and NHS National Services Scotland about failures in how citizen’s personal data was used and handled by the NHS Scotland COVID Status app. Governments should not be making these types of mistakes. See the ICO article …
Sometimes I feel you just cannot make this stuff up!
We need to make companies realise they must take our privacy seriously I know, as Bruce Schneier says – “read the small print”. However there comes a point where a company with integrity would just not sell on COVID 19 swabs, even if they state they will do so in …
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Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council not one but four serious breaches of sensitive information
Here is another Council losing control of the data of the people it is there to help. Redcar and Cleveland Council: Four serious data breaches reported – BBC News
The encryption debate – the ICO speaks out against government plans
As I said in my piece below – the removal of our access to secure communications needs to be a debate. Here is what the UK’s Information Commissioner thinks about it: Encryption: UK data watchdog criticises government campaign – BBC News
