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ICO guidance on transparency published for health and care sector

New guidance has been issued by ICO over how health and care organisations should be transparent over the use of
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ICO reprimands NHS Lanarkshire for sharing patient data via WhatsApp

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Lanarkshire following the use of WhatsApp by staff to
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Transgender charity Mermaids fined £25k for data protection breach

The transgender charity has been fined £25,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to keep the personal data
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London gender identity clinic investigating ‘data security incident’

A statement from Tavistock and Portman confirmed that “due to an error”, an email regarding an upcoming art project exposed
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Home Office discussing potentially unlawful access to patient info by police

According to some local medical committees in England, police are using subject access requests to acquire the medical histories of
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WhatsApp doc: Legal and practical perspectives of using mobile messaging

With GDPR coming into force in Spring 2018, our guest columnists explore the legal and practical implications of using mobile
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Digital Health’s Top 10 most read stories of 2017

It was a year filled with plenty of announcements, promises, deals and launches. We break down the Top 10 most viewed
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Digital Health’s review of the year, 2017

What a year 2017 has been in the world of digital health. It was a year you couldn't avoid with
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PCS Speaker profile: Peter Brown on mordernising data protection laws

Peter Brown, a senior technology officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), will be speaking about data protection principles in
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Former NHS employee guilty of snooping on patient records

A former NHS employee at Royal Stoke Hospital has been found guilty in court for snooping on patient records of
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