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Facebook and Google know about what illnesses you looked up on your visit to the NHS Choices site

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Another organisation has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act, after the personal information of doctors was sold online

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The government has decided to finally pull the plug on the troubled and hugely costly £12.7 billion NHS National Programme for IT

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An internal review of thousands of NHS websites has found that they are costing £86 million per year, and are not meeting the public's needs

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The government has scrapped a £80 million software licensing deal with Microsoft for the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) programme

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The ICO had been putting the spotlight on data breaches, following two incidents this week, but has so far issued no fines

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The NHS has been named and shamed by the Information Commissioner’s Office, after it topped a list for the most data breaches in the UK

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A Scottish hospital could be facing a fine from the ICO, after an NHS worker lost a USB stick containing patients' medical records

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Is there a doctor in the house? Computer systems at the NHS have been infected by a botnet which Symantec warns has compromised over 1,100 separate systems

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