Kent Police is taking remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA). An investigation concluded that Kent Police policies and procedures regarding the transportation and storage of personal information away from the office were limited in scope and required further clarification.
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) remains highly concerned that data breaches involving people’s personal information are continuing to occur in NHS organisations. Today NHS Stoke-on-Trent and Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust are the latest NHS bodies found to have breached the Data Protection Act (DPA).
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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Lampeter Medical Practice to be in breach of the Data Protection Act, after an unencrypted memory stick containing the personal details of 8,000 patients was reported lost to the privacy watchdog.
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West Berkshire Council is taking remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) following the loss of a USB stick containing the sensitive personal information of children and young people.
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