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As the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) hands out two more hefty fines, it hits the £1m threshold of fines issued. Granted the majority of these fines have been in the Public Sector, but that does not eliminate private businesses who have also received fines and investigations.
The ICO is clamping down hard on data breaches, with new guidelines being proposed January 2012 which will come into play over the coming months and years.
The UK is working alongside Europe with a new set...
Posted by Wendy Taylor
on 14/02/12
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Hospital bosses at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust are appealing against the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) stiffest punishment yet, a whopping £375,000.
The Information Commissioner is ‘proposing’ to issue its largest fine to-date for a breach of UK data protection laws. This comes as after patient records were stolen from a hospital and sold on eBay.
Hard drives holding patient data had been sold on the auction website by a contractor it employed to destroy them....
Posted by Wendy Taylor
on 14/02/12
Most high-tech employers, in fact most employers in general would most probably deny that age discrimination is an issue at their company. However in the IT industry, workers over the age of 50 beg to differ, saying that they have experienced age bias or at least know someone who has.
This bias can take several forms, salaries might stagnate, they might have fewer or no opportunities for advancement, they might not be included in training and professional development programs. And they could be...
Posted by Wendy Taylor
on 17/10/11
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