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New patient data bill brings NHS staff use of WhatsApp into focus
Better communication within the NHS is a key challenge, but what of the balance between patient care and privacy?
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Norway aims to become the world’s most digitized country
A new strategy from the government sets out clear goals for the “digital Norway of the future.”
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Irish DPC fines Meta €91m for password storage failures
Meta Ireland stored social media users passwords in ‘plaintext’ without encryption.
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IMY and Swedish banks in GDPR project to reduce money laundering
The Swedish Data Protection Authority and four banks will investigate better information sharing to fight financial crime.
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Electricity and gas firm fined €5m for unsolicited contacts and using old data
More than 2,300 customers were contacted, with some ‘relationships on paper’ endorsed with false signatures.
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Cegedim Santé fined €800,000 for processing health data unlawfully
The data was found to be pseudonymous – not anonymous – making it possible to re-identify the people concerned.
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Norwegian university fined for GDPR violations when using Microsoft Teams
Around 16,000 registered users connected to the university were affected, included Ukrainian refugees.
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X could face sanctions for training Grok on Europeans’ data
The Irish Data Protection Commission has said that it will “examine” complaints received.