Encrypting Your Office Mobile Devices.
The information Commissioners office ICO issued a monetary penalty notice to a private nursing home for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘DPA’) in August 2016.
In the matter of Whithehead Private Nursing Home Limited it was discovered that the nursing home provided an unencrypted laptop to its staff which the staff member took home.
The laptop contained personal data relating to 46 members of staff and 29 residents of the nursing home, including their date of birth, mental and physical health status and ‘do not resuscitate’ status and was subsequently stolen when a burglary occurred at the home of the staff member.
The nursing home did not have any policies governing the use of encryption and homeworking and did not provide its staff any training for data breaches.
The ICO also found that the nursing home had failed to take proper technical and organisational measures to prevent against the unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss in contravention of the 7th Principles of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998 had been breached. Click here for more details..
Contact Details:
Nath Solicitors Limited
4/4a Bloomsbury Square,
London, WC1A 2RP
Tel: 02036705540
Email: shubha@nathsolicitors.co.uk
Web: http://www.nathsolicitors.co.uk/
The information Commissioners office ICO issued a monetary penalty notice to a private nursing home for breach of the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘DPA’) in August 2016.
In the matter of Whithehead Private Nursing Home Limited it was discovered that the nursing home provided an unencrypted laptop to its staff which the staff member took home.
The laptop contained personal data relating to 46 members of staff and 29 residents of the nursing home, including their date of birth, mental and physical health status and ‘do not resuscitate’ status and was subsequently stolen when a burglary occurred at the home of the staff member.
The nursing home did not have any policies governing the use of encryption and homeworking and did not provide its staff any training for data breaches.
The ICO also found that the nursing home had failed to take proper technical and organisational measures to prevent against the unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss in contravention of the 7th Principles of the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998 had been breached. Click here for more details..
Contact Details:
Nath Solicitors Limited
4/4a Bloomsbury Square,
London, WC1A 2RP
Tel: 02036705540
Email: shubha@nathsolicitors.co.uk
Web: http://www.nathsolicitors.co.uk/
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