Bloomsbury Patient Network (Monetary penalties, Health) [2015] UKICO 2015-41 (18 December 2015)

Date
18 December 2015
Type
Monetary penalties
Sector
Health

The ICO has fined the Bloomsbury Patient Network after it inadvertently revealed the identities of HIV patients through an email error.

The network, that offers support to patients, sent out a newsletter via email using a list of email addresses in the -˜to' field rather than the -˜bcc' field to 200 patients. On receiving the email the recipients on the list could see all the individual email addresses. Many of them contained people's names which resulted in 56 patient's full or partial names being revealed.