6 May 2014 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction, Non-compliance, Systemic failure
Following two recent scandals involving public records, the Quincy city clerk says Quincy’s department heads will be required to undergo records-management training. In March, the city’s public works department illegally burned 49 boxes of old records without first...21 Mar 2013 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems, Operational Failures
Recordkeeping practices at Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) remain in the spotlight at the ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into the release of sensitive documents from the Fitzgerald Inquiry, the landmark 1980s investigation into into state...24 Jun 2012 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inappropriate Disposal or Destruction
More than 100 health records – almost half of them in NHS Grampian – went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included personal details of children and sensitive health information, according to details in a Freedom of Information response. Read...20 Apr 2012 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems
ATLANTA—Emory Healthcare announced this week that backup disks containing approximately 315,000 patient records had gone missing from a storage location at Emory University Hospital. In a statement released Thursday, the Atlanta-based health care system said there had...30 Mar 2012 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches
LOS ANGELES — A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California’s child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 adults and children. Four...12 Dec 2011 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems
Canada’s privacy commissioner says she has found “disturbing gaps” in the way the RCMP manages sensitive information in some of its databases, including records related to pardoned offences. Privacy watchdog Jennifer Stoddart’s findings are contained in an audit...9 Dec 2011 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems
Bundle account holders’ details unbundled in public. Detailed information about Telstra’s customer accounts – including usernames and passwords – has been found to be sitting on the open web for anyone to access via a Google search. A user of...16 Sep 2011 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Exposed through audit, Inadequate Systems, Incomplete records, Operational Failures
LINCOLN — Gov. Dave Heineman acknowledged Thursday that Nebraska’s initiative to privatize child welfare services has “not gone as well as anyone would like.” … Heineman’s comments were his first since State Auditor Mike Foley released a...21 Jul 2011 | Data Protection & Privacy Breaches
LONDON (Reuters)- Scotland Yard investigators have cryptic financial records corroborating suspicions that former News of the World editor Andy Coulson knew about illegal payments to police officers, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The cash...27 May 2011 | Breakdowns in Accountability, Data Protection & Privacy Breaches, Inadequate Systems, Non-compliance
The Victorian Ombudsman has handed down a scathing report on the state’s WorkSafe agencies, noting numerous privacy breaches and delays in payments as a result of poor record keeping practices. The report into record keeping practices has made a number of...
