ICO reprimands NHS Lanarkshire for sharing patient data via WhatsApp

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to NHS Lanarkshire, following staff’s unauthorised use of WhatsApp to share patients’ personal data over the course of two years. Between April 2020 and April 2022, 26 staff at NHS Lanarkshire had access to a WhatsApp group where patient data was entered on more than 500 occasions, including names, phone numbers and addresses. Images, videos and screenshots, which included clinical information, were also shared. While it was made available for communicating basic information only at the start of the pandemic, WhatsApp…

ICO statement on banks sharing and gathering personal information

Concern at banks sharing personal information with media ICO writes to banks around information held on customers ‘Farage’s experience shows why data protection rights are so important’ Following media reports of NatWest Bank sharing personal financial information about Nigel Farage with the BBC, Information Commissioner John Edwards said: “The banking duty of confidentiality is over a hundred years old, and it is clear that it would not permit the discussion of a customer’s personal information with the media. “We trust banks with our money and with our personal information. Any…

ICO backs new data sharing schemes to protect gamblers from harm

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today backed proposals for the financial sector to share data with gambling companies to protect customers from unaffordable losses. In a letter to industry body UK Finance, the ICO has confirmed that data protection law does not stop gambling companies from conducting financial risk checks on customers, and that lenders can share people’s personal information – but this must be done transparently and proportionately. “Problem gambling has devastating consequences for people’s finances, relationships and health. We are keen to see the financial sector share…

Coinbase Soars After Reaching Cboe Surveillance Sharing Agreement for 5 Bitcoin ETF Applications

“On June 21, 2023, the Exchange reached an agreement on terms with Coinbase, Inc., an operator of a United States-based spot trading platform for Bitcoin that represents a substantial portion of US-based spot trading platform for Bitcoin that represents a substantial portion of US-based and USD denominated Bitcoin trading, to enter into a surveillance-sharing agreement (“Spot BTC SSA”) and executed an associated term sheet,” the filing stated. Original

100 tokenized Teslas ‘democratize’ and ‘decentralize’ Web3 ride sharing

A Vienna-based car-sharing service company has outfitted nearly half of its 200+ fleet of cars with blockchain-based self-sovereign IDs for tokenization purposes.  The car-sharing service ELOOP and peaq, a Web3 network for the Economy of Things, announced on June 27th that 100 Teslas have been tokenized via the peaq network. The blockchain integration allows users to own a fraction of the fleet and share the revenue the cars generate from daily rideshare operations. Cointelegraph spoke with the co-founders of Eloop, Nico Prugger, and peaq, Leonard Dorloechter, in Vienna about decentralized…

Binance UK office one of 2,403 companies sharing ‘utility closet’ in Suffolk

The United Kingdom-registered address for an entity of one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, Binance, is nothing but a tiny building in Britain’s east that is shared by thousands of other companies. On June 19, a post on the r/buttcoin subreddit showed the so-called “utility closet” Binance Ltd and thousands of other firms use as a registered office address in the U.K. — a tactic often used by other tech firms and large companies. Binance Ltd’s address points to the small town of Mildenhall in Suffolk county, England. Google…

Salesforce (CRM) Stocks Jumps 15% in Pre-Market after Sharing Impressive Q4 2023 Revenue Figures

Salesforce has doubled down on its share buyback program which it commenced last year and said it will be committing the sum of $20 billion to the initiative. The shares of the American cloud-based software company Salesforce Inc (NYSE: CRM) are leading Wall Street momentum today as it jumps 15.79% in the Pre-Market following its recently announced performance and revenue figures. The company reported $8.38 billion in revenue for the Fourth Quarter of the 2023 Fiscal year ended on January 31. This revenue is up by 14% year-over-year and it…