An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Newcastle Youth Offending Team. This follows the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing sensitive personal data.

An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust. This follows two separate incidents involving the loss of personal data by the Trust.

Here is a link to the slides of a talk about IPv6 security gave last week at LACNOG (http://www.lacnog.org). 

The slides are available at: http://www.gont.com.ar/talks/lacnog2010/fgont-lacnog2010-ipv6-security.pdf

An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Spectrum Housing Group. This follows a non-secure e-mail with an excel attachment containing personal data relating to employees of the data controller, being sent in error to an unintended recipient outside of the organisation. It was also discovered that data within hidden pivot cells forming part of the spreadsheet could be revealed.

An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Dumfries and Galloway Council. This follows the accidental online disclosure of current and former employees personal data in response to a Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act request.

An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by the General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). This follows theft of a laptop containing sensitive personal data from the home of an employee.

An Undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Holly Park School. This follows the theft of an unencrypted laptop containing personal data relating to nine pupils.

An Undertaking has been signed by Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust following the accidental destruction of 10,000 archived records. The records which should have been kept in a dedicated storage area were put in a disposal room due to lack of space.

An Undertaking has also been signed by Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust after two diaries containing information relating to the care of 240 midwifery patients - were stolen from a nurses car. The diaries included patients names, addresses and details of previous visits and were used by the nurse during out of hours duty.