BBC reports: An inquiry is under way after official correspondence about procedures for when the Queen dies was accidentally leaked by the Welsh government. The correspondence and a security pamphlet marked “official sensitive”, was emailed to a member of the public. Read more at BBC. Well, from reading the full article, PogoWasRight learned that something…
Category: Breaches
PSNI officer allegedly took photograph of suicide victim’s body
Allison Morris reports: A referral to the Police Ombudsman by former chief constable George Hamilton led to a grim discovery that resulted in two serving officers being investigated for sharing pictures of a dead body. A file on the two officers, under investigation for a raft of offences, has now been sent to the Public Prosecution…
Some Russian oligarchs are using U.K. data privacy law to sue
Reed Albergotti reports: Russian oligarchs and other powerful individuals are turning to an unusual method to protect their online images: data privacy laws. Those laws, which were intended to prevent ads from tracking consumers too closely around the Internet, are now being used in the United Kingdom to sue anyone holding undesirable information on their…
“Get a Life” – Another Dentist Responds to Patient’s Online Review, This Time Faces a $50,000 OCR Penalty
Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: It can be cathartic responding to a negative online review. It can also backfire, as can failing to cooperate with an OCR investigation as required under HIPAA. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced four enforcement actions, one against a small dental practice that imposed a $50,000 civil monetary penalty under HIPAA….