Birmingham-based Pinstripe Print Group has announced that it has successfully won part of a significant three-year print services contract Framework agreement contract with Dudley Council. The Framework agreement Tender contract win comes ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has prosecuted a GP surgery manager for unlawfully accessing the medical records of almost 2,000 patients registered with the practice. 37-year-old Steven Tennison was employed by the College ...
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New data protection laws intended to protect citizens' privacy, which could see internet companies forced to pay out up to €100m (£85m) in fines if they fail to comply, have been given the go ahead by Members of the European ...
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Scottish ministers have issued a tender for the provision of IT staff for public sector organisations in Scotland. The tender, found on the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), states that the framework agreement is available ...
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The government and NHS will invest £1bn in technology over the next three years in a bid to improve patient care and ease pressure on A&E departments, health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today. The move is part of ongoing efforts ...
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Financial software expert Lev Lesokhin, who works for analysis and measurement software provider CAST Software, believes that stock exchanges are playing Russian roulette with their trading systems. "We're loading up a bunch of bullets or ...
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Businesses are collecting more information about individuals than ever, but almost two thirds of people aren't aware what data about them is being collected or don't know it's being collected at all. Further reading Ninety per cent of ...
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GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has threatened to fine Google, if the web giant doesn't make its privacy policy clearer by September. Failure to provide information about how it uses and stores user data could see Google fined ...
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Google is not obligated to delete sensitive data from its search index, despite being subject to EU privacy legislation. That's the view of a top adviser to the European Court of Justice about a case concerning whether individuals can ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google with an enforcement notice regarding the collection of data by the web firm's Street View cars. The decision follows an investigation into Google which found its collection of ...
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EE has hit back at claims by the Sunday Times that it and market research firm Ipsos MORI have been working on a deal that would feed data on EE's 27 million customers to the research firm, and even, allegedly, to the police. An EE ...
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The ICO has today warned that the data protection regulation currently making its way through the European Parliament may not suit the UK, and in fact may not even reach the agreement necessary for it to come into force. Further reading ...
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Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has announced an agreement with HP, allowing the enterprise services provider to implement an electronic patient records (EPR) system eHospital programme aimed at improving services. Worth over ...
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The issues with sharing confidential patient information needs to be tackled before the NHS attempts to go paperless, according to Dr Jonathan Richardson, clinical director of informatics at the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation ...