This month the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has served a Monetary Penalty Notice of £130,000 to Powys County Council, after the details of a child protection case were sent to the wrong recipient. The penalty is the highest that the ICO has served since it received the power in April 2010.…
December 7, 2011 Tags: ad hoc file transfer, data breach, ico, ipswitch moveit dmz, secure file transfer
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Recent reports have highlighted that hospitals and physicians in the US have been given a deadline of 2015, to convert all health records into digital form and then, to deploy the accompanying technology to handle these digital assets. Considering only about a quarter of the US population’s health records are digitally stored – this is a bit of a tall order!…
March 26, 2010 Tags: data security, healthcare, ico, large file transfer, secure file transfer
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Announced earlier this week by the Ministry of Justic, amends have been made to the Data Protection Act of 1988 that when passed in April 2010 will allow the ICO to impose fines of up to £500,000 on organisations found to be negligent regarding the privacy of personal data.…
The European Commission (EC) have publicly stated that the UK Government is not adequately enforcing European data privacy laws and is ready to clamp down on them in 2 months time. Reported on the Infosecurity web site and backed up by our recent discussions with the ICO; next year is likely to be the year in which Enterprises feel the full force of European legislation regarding the data privacy.…
November 2, 2009 Tags: european commission, european data privacy, ico, legislation, secure file transfer
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We hear it in the news week in week out. So and so company has left a laptop on a train containing 4 million unencrypted customer records, a hacker has infiltrated an online payment system stealing thousands of unsuspecting UK consumer credit card details – even today I have walked through the door and the first news alert in my email begins, “ChoicePoint to pay $275,000 for second data breach.” I can’t help but wonder why data security is failing?…
October 26, 2009 Tags: annual data and privacy conference, christopher graham, data breach, data loss, data security, ico, pci dss, secure file transfer
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