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ICO fines Nursing and Midwifery Council £150,000
Niall Mclean blogs on Brodies PublicLawBlog about a recent ICO monetary penalty notice issued following the loss of sensitive personal data by the Nursing and Midwifery Council....Information Commissioner publishes guidance on Bring Your Own Device
The UK’s Information Commssioner’s Office (ICO) has today published new guidance for employers on the use personal (employee owned) devices for work purposes. Bring Your Own Device (or BYOD) is a hot topic for many organisations. Many employees are seeking to use their own smartphone or ...Information Commissioner reveals methodology for calculating monetary penalty notices
Last month, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) successfully defended the first appeal against a monetary penalty notice issued by the ICO for a breach of the Data Protection Act. The appeal was by Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, which appealed against a fine of £90,000...Kim Dotcom and Mega: Legal FAQs
You’re probably familiar with Kim Dotcom, the German-Finnish internet entrepreneur who currently resides in New Zealand, and is being pursued by the US Department of Justice regarding accusations of a “Megaupload” business empire built on rampant infringement of US copyright law...Brodies Autumn seminar programme
As part of Brodies’ autumn 2012 seminar programme, we are running a series of free seminars at our offices in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow: Your Intellectual Property, your views – what did the survey say? – Gill Grassie and Robert Buchan will highlight the key findings from our rec...ICO investigation highlights importance of information security to brand reputation
The story earlier this week about the Information Commissioner’s (ICO) investigation into concerns over the security of user passwords for the tesco.com website is a timely reminder that information security is an evolving area, and one that organisations need to keep under constant review. Th...ICO issues £225,000 fine following failure to adequately protect paper records on disused site
An NHS Trust in Northern Ireland has been fined £225,000 by the ICO, following unauthorised access by tresspassers to medical and staff records held in a disused building. The fine is the second highest to date issued by the ICO, beaten only by that issued last month to Brighton and Sussex Universi...New guidance on IT security for small businesses
The ICO has published a short guide for small businesses on IT security. The guide is ideal for small organisations that are trying to get to grips with their obligations under the Data Protection Act, and are yet to develop an IT security policy (or wish to review their current policy). Helpfully, ...New surveillance bill faces criticism
Last Thursday, the Government published its draft Communications Data Bill which, it is fair to say, has been met with wide criticism. The Bill, which was trailed in the Queen’s Speech earlier this year and has been dubbed a ‘snoopers’ charter’, grants additional powers to law enforcemen...ICO issues largest fine to date
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust with a £325,000 fine following a breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA). This is the largest fine the ICO has issued to date. The ICO was granted the power to fine public and private organis...Techblogger article in Computing Magazine on employee use of smartphones
I’ve written an article for Computing Magazine entitled “are your smartphones in safe hands?”. Given the content, the title should perhaps be “are their smartphones in safe hands?”, because the article is mainly about the risks of letting employees use their own smar...Not all clouds have silver linings – how information security varies between cloud providers
You may have read in the press that Google has entered into its biggest cloud-hosting deal to date. And surprisingly this deal is with one of Spain’s largest banks, BBVA. The fact that a bank is signing up to Google Enterprise Apps for email and other collaboration services could be taken as a con...Windows close on Comet
Surrounded by Apple Macs, iPods, and iPhones, I sit in my iVory (sic) tower, happily proclaiming that Apple devices don’t get viruses. I’m therefore not entirely familiar with the concept of Microsoft Windows recovery CDs, but it seems that they are for use when your Windows, er, clo...