The Information Commissioner’s Office announced: A former health adviser has been found guilty of accessing medical records of patients without a valid legal reason. Christopher O’Brien, 36, was working at the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust when he unlawfully accessed the records of 14 patients, who were known personally to him, between June and December 2019….
Category: Breaches
Beware of Third-Party Trackers Like Meta Pixel. Ignoring Them Could Be Costly.
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild offers some concise and sage advice: If you are dealing with sensitive information of any kind (yes, this includes precise geolocation, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc), but especially health information (and yes, reproductive health information too), do yourself a favor: Scan your website for third party trackers like Meta Pixel. Talk to…
It’s good to TalkTalk, Part 2: negligence claims for data breaches
Eoin O’Dell writes: Two recent cases demonstrate two very different privacy issues arising out data breaches suffered by the telecommunications company TalkTalk in 2014 and 2015. Smith v TalkTalk Telecom Group plc [2022] EWHC 1311 (QB) (27 May 2022) concerned claims for damages for both breaches; whilst Sterritt v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2022] NIQB 43 (09 June 2022) concerned the…
Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages
Zack Whittaker reports: Popular video calling and messaging app JusTalk claims to be both secure and encrypted. But a security lapse has proven the app to be neither secure nor encrypted after a huge cache of users’ unencrypted private messages was found online. [..] Security researcher Anurag Sen found the data this week and asked TechCrunch for…