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The UK Ministry of Defence has been fined over an “egregious” email leak of Afghan interpreters' personal details. The government department has been slapped with a £350,000 penalty for revealing the information of 265 people - who worked with the British Army amid the 20-year occupation - trying to escape the Taliban when they took control of Afghanistan in August 2021 by the Information Commissioners’ Office. The head of the agency, John Edwards, ruled the mistake "let down those to whom our country owes so much." He added: “This was a particularly egregious breach of the obligation of secur...
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NHS Lanarkshire staff have been reprimanded for sharing patient details on WhatsApp. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) launched an investigation following the data breach after it was found that personal information had been shared in an unauthorised group chat over the course of two years. The ICO found that 26 members of staff had shared access to patients' names, numbers and addresses, as well as clinical information on multiple occasions between April 2020 and April 2022. The messaging app was adopted as a form of communication during the pandemic but had not been approved for pr...
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Social media platform TikTok has been fined £12.7 million for misusing children’s data. UK regulators Watchdog issued the fine to the video app for illegally using millions of children’s data. Despite concerns being raised that under-13s were using the service and TikTok claiming it had issued a ban, the Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) found that 1.4m under 13’s signed up alone in 2020. John Edwards, the Information Commissioner, said: “An estimated one million under 13s were inappropriately granted access to the platform, with TikTok collecting and using their personal data. “That me...
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Clearview AI has been fined for illegally storing facial images. The Information Commissioner’s Office slapped a £7 million fine on the controversial company - which takes images from sites such as Facebook and Instagram to maintain a global recognition database - for breaking UK data protection laws, along with orders to cease collecting and using the data of UK residents. ICO claimed that Clear John Edwards, the UK Information Commissioner told the BBC: "The company not only enables identification of those people, but effectively monitors their behaviour and offers it as a commercial service...
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