The UK's data protection watchdog has levied its first fine against an NHS organisation, after a Welsh hospital accidentally sent a patient's health details to the wrong person. The Information ...

More than 150,000 people have had their personal information handled by England’s Test and Trace scheme since it was hurriedly launched on May 28 – 36 days ago. However, the government has failed to ...

Back in 2015, DeepMind, a Google company, signed a deal with the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust. The deal allowed DeepMind access to 1.6 million patients health information as well as the ability to ...

Synnovis's 18-month forensic review of Qilin intrusion completed, now affected patients to be notified Synnovis has finally wrapped up its investigation into the 2024 ransomware attack that crippled ...

Shortcomings in patient data privacy have been found by the ICO on a case involving the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust’s use of Google DeepMind. In a statement, the ICO said that the Royal Free NHS ...

U.K. Health Secretary Wes Streeting is set to sign a direction allowing a dataset from the pandemic to be accessed for ...

To get a doctor’s appointment in the U.K. these days, you have to entrust more of your data to private companies — and there’s not a great deal you can do about it. In part due to growing pressure ...

The NHS has not yet decided whether it will take part in a large-scale pilot involving the sharing of confidential patient details between European countries. However, following recent criticism of ...

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has called for “serious improvements” to data protection processes for organizations handling information on HIV sufferers, after reprimanding an NHS ...