Data

What are the security issues and challenges presented by vaccine passports, and how should they be designed and used with ethics and privacy in mind?

The proposed collection of patient data held by GPs will now only commence when three key criteria have been fulfilled, says NHS Digital

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252504236/NHS-Digital-tightens-rules-for-GPDPR-data-scrape

The ICO can confirm it is investigating an alleged data breach.

EMCOR Group (UK) plc, which provides facilities management and CCTV services for the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has submitted a breach report as a processor of personal data, alleging images were taken from the DHSC CCTV system without consent from either EMCOR Group (UK) plc or the DHSC.

Activist lawyer Max Schrems and Eduardo Ustaran, partner at Hogan Lovells, look for common ground in a problem with no easy answers

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252504100/Privacy-Shield-one-year-on-and-companies-are-still-grappling-for-answers

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined transgender charity Mermaids £25,000 for failing to keep the personal data of its users secure.

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2021/07/ico-fines-transgender-charity-for-data-protection-breach-exposing-sensitive-personal-data/

Data relating to 700 million users of the LinkedIn networking platform has appeared for sale, but the firm says it is the victim of data scraping, not a security breach

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503281/LinkedIn-denies-exposure-of-700-million-user-records-is-a-data-breach

For now European businesses can continue to send data to the UK without additional safeguards and paperwork. How long will it last?

https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/UK-data-exchanges-with-EU-can-continue-after-adequacy-decision-but-for-how-long

Former health secretary faces an investigation by the UK’s data protection watchdog over his use of private email to conduct government business

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503659/ICO-to-probe-Hancock-over-private-email-use

The European Commission has granted the UK data adequacy, allowing data sharing between the EU and the UK, but warns it may yet be revoked

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503213/EU-recognises-UK-data-protection-adequacy-but-warns-against-divergence

Google’s proposed Privacy Sandbox initiative – which will see third-party cookies phased out in the Chrome web browser – has been pushed back to 2023

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252502988/Google-hands-third-party-cookies-a-stay-of-execution