23 June 2015, 12.30 pm
I chair a webinar on data protection. From this I learn that you should not leave all your client data on one laptop, unencrypted and un-backed-up, and then leave the laptop on the passenger seat of your car when you stop at some traffic lights with the windows down and the doors unlocked. In data protection terms, that is called Asking for Trouble. Or Working for the Civil Service. You should especially not do this if you have sensitive stuff on your unencrypted, un-backed-up laptop, for example your clients’ medical records, credit scores or dietary requirements. It seems to me that data protection is not so complicated after all. Even I know not to put everything on one laptop and then take it out for a spin with me. Indeed, no. I have backed up all my sensitive data to a place in the sky somewhere and nobody, not even me, knows the password. And it was not encrypted when it went up there but Windows® has since encrypted it in a sort of accidental-reconfiguring kind of way, so now it is absolutely safe. If anyone sends me a Freedom of Information request I will be able to tell them, with confidence, that I no longer have any of their data, or indeed any of anybody else’s data, or come to think of it my task list, my emails or the latest draft of the CIPA Council agenda. But I do have plenty of software updates.
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