Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
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 …
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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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
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
Anything that reduces the ordinary citizen’s right to privacy, especially when it is driven by our government, needs more than a social media steam roller campaign by that government to make it law. It needs a proper education of those citizens as to what they are giving up, so the …
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