The guardian reported yesterday about a care provider who lost a memory stick containing personal information about 160 individuals, including in some cases information about their mental health and care.

The memory stick was unencrypted, meaning anyone that found the memory stick could access the data. We work with lots of charities and care providers so if you don’t have policies and procedures in place for your staff to know what to do when they need to transfer data we can advise you. We can also work with you to implement industry standard data encryption, including USB memory sticks.

So don’t risk ending up in the news for all the wrong reasons, give us a call and we’ll help you with your data protection and compliance responsibilities.