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Aug 3 2023

Scottish NHS trust ducks fine after staff shared patient data via WhatsApp

5 minutes of reading / GDPR, Meta, Tech / By Comkex

NHS Lanarkshire has been issued a reprimand by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after 26 staff at the trust used a WhatsApp group to share patient data, including names, phone numbers and addresses, on over 500 occasions between April 2020 and April 2022. Staff at the trust, which oversees three hospitals near Glasgow in the…

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Jul 31 2023

Gartner: Steps to improving test data management

5 minutes of reading / automation, compliance, DevOps, GDPR, software engineering, Tech / By Comkex

Test data management (TDM) is a crucial practice for ensuring compliant data and providing uniformity to test data. In the same way testing environments and data models are continuously evolving, test data management practices require ongoing revision. The use of personal data in development and testing environments is a persistent concern for software engineering leaders…

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Jul 22 2023

‘Significant gaps’ in UK AI regulation, says Ada Lovelace Institute

6 minutes of reading / AI, GDPR, Tech, Technology / By Comkex

The UK’s government’s “deregulatory” data reform proposals will undermine the safe development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) by making “an already-poor landscape of redress and accountability” even worse, the Ada Lovelace Institute has said. Published on 29 March, the government’s AI whitepaper outlined its “adaptable” approach to regulating AI, which it claimed will drive responsible innovation…

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