Unthreaded
@Otto If it really was protected data then they were the ones breaking the law.
You could have been a tabloid journo who already taken a photo of the board.
They do have rules
\\ Access – The wipe board should ideally only be accessible to authorised staff – i.e. those directly involved in the provision or administration of care for that patient client. Other staff, patients and/or members of the public should not have access. Where it is not possible to limit access to just authorised staff steps must be taken to ensure the wipe board is obscured at all times when it is not being put to immediate use. //
stewgreen
Data Protection
I was in hospital recently visiting my mother.
On the wall in the ward was a whiteboard with the patients' names and who their doc was etc etc. It is the same in every hospital.
I was looking at the board to see what they were planning for me mam when a nurse came up and said "Can I help you ?"
Unfortunatley sarc got the better of me and I replied "No, thanks I learnt to read years ago."
She then told me that I wasn't allowed to read the board, because it contained confidential patient information.
Stuff written in marker pen
On a board
on a wall
in a corridor
in a NHS hospital.
sigh.
ottokring
The lack of available/findable data is very odd.
May 10, 2018 at 7:58 AM | Uibhist a Tuath
"Someone" decided to throw it away. Many records were put on microfiche systems from the 1980s, which were subsequently copied digitally.
What was thrown away? Paper records from the 1950s, microfiched copies, or digital ones?
The idea that the Home Office would deliberately throw away information that COULD be of benefit to the Home Office, Immigration, Police, Customs, Pensions, Inland Revenue, NHS etc, is very odd. That is before any benefits to individuals and archivists trying to trace history for personal reasons in an era of alleged Open Government.
Warehouses full of old dusty records do cost money, and are not easy to access. That was recognised to justify microfiches.
Yes, very odd. Someone wanted those records disposed of, or unaccessible?
golf charlie
May 9, 2018 at 10:28 PM | Pcar
I'm surprised that the landing card data wasn't archived somewhere, anyone doing a bit of ancestry research comes across all sorts of stuff, including passenger lists and immigration data. A lot (most/all?) of the the ships were operated by commercial shipping companies who would maintain passenger lists, the Empire Windrush although owned by the UK government, one of the war prizes from Germany, was operated by a commercial shipping company. The lack of available/findable data is very odd.
Uibhist a Tuath
@tomo, May 10, 2018 at 1:50 AM
[In Sweden] Back in the 90s there was a real scare about a Russian invasion
Yep. I was there in Malmo where old underground bunker was becoming a Mall and new much larger one being built under concrete "Big Square" - cobbled "Little Square" was in old-town
Pcar
stewgreen
During the (Soros ?) Kronor crisis some years back there was a popular meme in Sweden that since they were broke but armed to the teeth - they should invade their rich neighbor and immediately surrender.
Back in the 90s there was a real scare about a Russian invasion - the Red Army in the Kola peninsula hadn't been paid, had low rations and little fuel and was purportedly getting fractious watching Scandinavian TV - the Scandis as I heard it at the time - surreptitiously sent food and fuel to quiet things down.
The Norwegians are paying about 9p/kWh for electricity which is almost entirely hydro.... salaries are roughly 30% higher then the UK..... and every Norwegian has a "pot" of about £100K in the sovereign wealth fund. They have also been restricting immigration in recent years - compared to the Swedes.
tomo
@tomo, May 9, 2018 at 8:59 AM
Domestic solar mis-selling (and insane subsidies) deserves a kicking - but it's not difficult to imagine that prosecuting it is being actively discouraged by officialdom in case it taints renewables as a whole - since the totemic virtue signalling panels now adorn a significant number of residential properties...
Same as retro-fit cavity wall insulation - Gov't desperate to cover-up failures and prevent a mis-selling class action.
GreenFail
Pcar
@stewgreen
Windrush & Breast Sceening - two 2009 "failures" - are they Labour poison pills? How many more did they intentionally create?
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@tomo
You mentioned senior civil servant letter in Times saying destruction of landing cards was a red herring - more likely he's defending Labour. El Reg has an article exploring the 2009 claim of "data protection" conclusion: a lie.
Pcar
Tesla back up to 307c , how's that ?
stewgreen
No antifracking letter in todya's Yorkshire Post, instead now the greens who are usually preserving nature have written a long romantic letter about turning the Humber estuary into a lake and tidal barrier .
The main problem today is flooding on the Ouse at York cos the river system cannot dump water into the sea sytem fas enough..
If you have a tidal barrier don't you usually set it so that the fresh water side it higher than the sea side ?
Oh they do have an anti fracking letter ..it protests the gov is pro fracking cos some of their friends will gain
... well just as they gain from green gimmicks as well ?