Coronavirus care home death statistics were unlawfully kept secret by a department of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Information Commissioner has ruled. National Records of Scotland (NRS), an agency of
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Michael Gove has defended police being given data on people told to self-isolate through NHS Test and Trace, saying that officers are operating in a “very proportionate way”. The Department
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The UK statistics regulator has had to “step in” multiple times during the pandemic to alert Government departments to “transgressions” when ministers have quoted data that is not then quickly
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The personal data of every Welsh resident who tested positive for Covid-19 was accidentally uploaded to a public server, where it was searchable by anyone using the site. Public Health
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A new report, published by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), shows that more people than ever before work in Scotland’s social services. There are some 206,400 people in the
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The Government has admitted that England’s Covid-19 Test and Trace programme has broken a data protection law, according to a letter sent to privacy campaigners. The Department of Health and
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Welsh social care regulator, Social Care Wales, has launched a new dashboard showing local authority spend on social care. This new dashboard is available in English and Welsh, as part
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Standards that would force tech giants to make children’s privacy online a primary consideration have been published by the UK’s data regulator. The final Age Appropriate Design Code has been
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Google’s video site YouTube has been fined 170 million US dollars (£139 million) to settle allegations it collected children’s personal data without their parents’ consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
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Some hospitals are “gaming the system” to make their A&E waiting times data look better than it is, medics have claimed. Senior staff said patients are being sent to same
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