The HSE has confirmed that a laptop containing personal information about 1,150 health workers was stolen from the home of a senior medical officer in public health medicine earlier this month.
According to the HSE, the laptop was “password protected, but was not encrypted.”
This is comparable to arriving at a gunfight with a fountain pen.
If you took part in an HSE survey, would you expect that information to be protected, even in the case of theft? Would you assume that, with all those high-profile cases of data theft and stolen laptops in the news, the HSE would look into encryption technology?
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