ICO fines health firm £200,000 for emailing insecure audio recordings

Dan Worth
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HCA International also in hot water for how subcontractor stored data

The Information Commissioner's Officer (ICO) has fined a health care firm £200,000 for emailing audio recordings of outpatient letters in an unencrypted format, and the fact the transcripts of thes...

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