Student data lost in post

Seems data is still going missing. When will these people learn!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7210358.stm

Tax return site seems to be ‘too risky’ for some people. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=VUWTDRLGXJMBFQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/26/ntax126.xml).

there is a website that gives a list of some other breaches. This is not a compleate list (for example last time I checked it did not mention Grampian NHS losing data 8 times in 5 years and it would be very difficult to list all breaches that have taken place at a more local level). http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/UK_Privacy_Debacles

Sample medical questionaire

medical questionaire

As far as the health profession and MSPs are concerned, this sort of questionaire is perfectly fine. Even the Information Commissoners Office seems to think this is fine.

If you notice option Q, it will be apparent that you must disclose all medical conditions/problems. That measn if you are not prepared to duisclose your thrush from 3 years ago or now, then you can not apply for the job. Thrush is unlikely to be relevant, but they are allowed to know it.

 This goes directly to the employer and can be read by anyone you give the form to or whoever the emjployer allows to handl it. The job is serving customers and stacking shelves.

Security Breach

The one thing that anoyes me the most is people talking rubbish about access. Take the example of Michael Summers, of the Patients’ Association who said

“Patients provide confidential information to their GPs and to hospital doctors, information that no-one else has, on the basis that it will always remain confidential. Suddenly we discover that it’s not confidential after all. It gets leaked in one form or another and is lost“

You would think he would know that medical data is rarely handled in the way he says.

 The article is mainly about data lost by the NHS. They still claim that there is no evidence to suggest it got into the wrong hands but then ignore the basic fact that it is not in the right hands ether. These are the twits and morons hell bent on dowing away with medical privacy for good and they cant even look after what they have.

Full article can be found at

http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=70BF167E-7612-47AF-87DC-9ACD23F5ABF6

More data goes missing

Been a while since I updated, so here are a few things.It seems that even more data the government wants us to trust them with has gone missing.So far these incompetent morons have managed to lose the details of 25 million people (along with bank info and other sensitive data including the identities of people on the witness protection scheme), the DVLA lost data after they sent it to the USA, The DVLA in NI lost data they were sending to the UK mainland and the list is getting longer all the time.Here are some links to read up on each thing.
‘Up to 3,000′ patient records on laptop stolen from GP surgery
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=35&storycode=4116547&c=1NHS trusts lose patients` details of hundreds of thousands of adults and children
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7158019.stm 

It would also seem that NHS Grampian lost data 8 times in 5 years.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7158688.stm

They still insist they can be trusted with our data and they still demand that they know everything about you and your family, yet the cant even look after the stuff they have already stolen from us. When will these pathetic people learn