BOFH: Moon landings, Pong and the case of the smoking server – Embrace, extend, exterminate … Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners – I’m glad I didn’t pay in to be part of this. The ICO has been busy… Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL – ICO fines Cheshire East £80k for data breach Child abuse files […]
It seems the team at the popular tech news and review site TheRegister.co.uk didn’t quite have enough Coffee this Monday morning as they mistakenly sent an email out to 3,521 of it’s subscribers with the email address details of 46,524 of it’s readers. It seems a lot less people subscribe than actually read the articles. The following […]
A local authority has signed an undertaking to improve the security of the personal data it holds after information about six vulnerable home support clients was stolen from a worker, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. North Lanarkshire Council’s guidance on how workers should use, transport and dispose of sensitive documents was “inadequate”, the […]
Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for breaking the Data Protection Act. The council was rapped for three separate offences. Firstly, in May last year it sent mental and physical health information on 241 individuals to the wrong group email address. Recipients included cab and coach firms. The council […]
Two out of five UK home users don’t have a clue about how to change the security settings of their home wireless network. The 21st century equivalent of a failure in understanding how to program home video recorders was exposed in a survey commissioned by privacy watchdogs at the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The online […]