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It’s still not fine
Last week I blogged about enforcement notices served on three Midlands police forces by the Information Commissioner (IC). I was surprised that the circumstances hadn’t merited stronger sanctions, in...
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An unshared perspective
Paul Gibbons, FOI Man, has blogged about data-sharing, questioning whether an over-cautious approach to sharing of health data is damaging. Paul says What I’m increasingly worried about is what appears...
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Let’s Blame Data Protection – the Gove files
Thanks to Tim Turner, for letting me blog about the FOI request he made which gives rise to this piece On the 12th September the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, in an op-ed piece in the Telegraph,...
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Why I’ve opted-out of care.data
Last week, after months of (over)thinking about it, I sent my GP a letter, based on the excellent template by the tireless MedConfidential refusing consent for identifiable data from my electronic...
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care.data – what am I worried will happen?
I was invited today on twitter to say what I was worried will happen as a result of the care.data programme. I’ve written about this previously, and some of my concerns are laid out in those posts. But...
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The care.data leaflet campaign – legally necessary?
Readers of this blog [sometimes I imagine them1] may well be fed up with posts about care.data (see here, here and here). But this is my blog and I’ll cry if I want to. So… Doyen of information rights...
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Big Pharma and care.data
Patients’ identifiable medical data will end up in the hands of large pharmaceutical companies, under the care.data initiative. With “Big Pharma” beholden to shareholders, and its abysmal record on...
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Hospital records sold to insurance companies – in breach of the Data...
I’ve asked the ICO to assess whether the sale of millions of health records to insurance companies so that they could “refine” their premiums was complaint with the law I’m about to disclose some...
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Why no prison sentences for misuse of medical data?
So, the government, roused from its torpor by the public outrage at the care.data proposals, and the apparent sale of 47 million patient records to actuaries, is proposing, as a form of reassurance,...
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Health data breaches – missing the point?
Breaches of the DPA are not always about data security. I’m not sure NHS England have grasped this. Worse, I’m not sure the ICO understands public concern about what is happening with confidential...
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We thought you cared(ata)
David Evans is Senior Policy Officer at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). In an interview with “The Information Daily.com” uploaded on 12 March, he spoke about data sharing in general, and...
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Sale of patient data – time for an independent review?
The Sunday Times reports that a billion patient records have been sold to a marketing consultancy. Is it time for an independent review of these highly questionable data sharing practices? In 2012, at...
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Opting patients out of care.data – in breach of data protection law?
The ICO appear to think that GPs who opt patients out of care.data without informing them would be breaching the Data Protection Act. They say it would be unfair processing In February of this year GP...
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Articles on care.data
I thought I was rather flogging the care.data horse on this blog, so, in the spirit of persistence, I thought why not go and do it somewhere else? The Society of Computers and Law kindly asked me to...
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The Partridge Review reveals apparently huge data protection breaches
Does the Partridge Review of NHS transfers of hospital episode patient data point towards one of the biggest DPA breaches ever? In February this year Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National Director for...
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Hospital episode data – confidential data uploaded by mistake
Rather hidden away in the new IIGOP annual report is a worrying and revealing report of a serious data breach involving hospital episode data In February last year Tim Kelsey, NHS England’s National...
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Up a gum tree
Data protection law doesn’t prevent disclosure of personal data where not doing would be likely to prejudice criminal justice purposes Theft of a bicycle may not be the most serious crime ever....
View ArticleAn Uber-reaction in The Times
“Uber gives police private data on drivers and passengers” announces The Times(£) this morning. In this post, much to my surprise (I have never taken an Uber, and don’t intend to – I don’t like their...
View ArticleICO not compliant with post-Schrems II data protection law?
In which I finally receive a reply to my complaint about ICO’s Facebook page. The issue of the transfer of personal data to the US has been the subject of much debate and much litigation. In 2015 the...
View ArticleNew Model Clauses – a Mishcon podcast
My colleagues, partners Adam Rose and Ashley Winton, discuss the new European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses announced on 4 June 2021. I honestly can’t think of two better people to discuss...
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