Test and Trace Privacy

[kuepper]

https://contact-tracing.phe.gov.uk/help/privacy-notice

“The personal identifiable information collected by the NHS Test and Trace on people with coronavirus or who have symptoms will be kept for 20 years"

“The personal identifiable information collected on the contacts of people with coronavirus, including those who are showing symptoms, will be kept for 5 years."

Scheme overseen by Tory peer Lady Harding who's also the wife of Tory MP - makes you wonder how she got the job - who was head of Talk Talk when it was hacked by two teenage boys in 2015, resulting in almost 157,000 customers having their personal details stolen

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...er-driven-to-make-track-and-trace-scheme-work

 

[A]

Doesn't exactly instill any degree of confidence does it. I think I'll pass on this for now and just keep holed up with occasional socially distanced local excursions for shopping and exercise

 

[Billy Horner]

They haven’t issued the contact tracers with secure laptops either, asking them to use their own laptops instead. So people’s sensitive personal data will be sitting on the hard drives of privately owned, insecure laptops, controlled by individuals who haven’t been trained how dispose of that data securely.

 

[Laughing]

They haven’t issued the contact tracers with secure laptops either, asking them to use their own laptops instead. So people’s sensitive personal data will be sitting on the hard drives of privately owned, insecure laptops, controlled by individuals who haven’t been trained how dispose of that data securely.

That on it's own is a breach of GDPR Billy.

The 20 yr/5yr thing I undertsand why retaining data for so long could be useful, however I don't ubnderstand why the difference.

 

[SmallTown]

I’ve sent a lengthy email to the NHS asking them about various data integrity issues I see with track and trace, including the use of personal laptops, encryption of data and records retention.

I even once used the phrase pseudonymised.
I’ll let you know if they respond

 

[Randy]

If they ring me I will be telling them I've been in direct contact with the following people to see if the scheme works

Matt Hancock
Piers Morgan
Robert Preston
Jamie Carragher

 

[FartingGnome]

Interestingly there's an article in the Grauniad today about a large number of thousands of tests are functionally useless because they're not tagged with the NHS number of the sample provider. I was told this, together with the name of the contractor, by a GP friend of mine last week, but thought it wiser not to post it on a footy message board. It's out now anyway. So no privacy concerns there, they've done the tests, got the results, but they don't know whose they are. Priceless. This really is now just one large sick joke.

 

[Randy]

When are we getting access to the antibody tests?

 

[Chris_Boro]

Personal laptops

One tab open with personal info on 100's of people, other tab shopping on Wish.

 

[Laughing]

That made me laugh Chris, we have all done that sort of thing, so we know it to be true.

 

[Jedi boro]

Interestingly there's an article in the Grauniad today about a large number of thousands of tests are functionally useless because they're not tagged with the NHS number of the sample provider. I was told this, together with the name of the contractor, by a GP friend of mine last week, but thought it wiser not to post it on a footy message board. It's out now anyway. So no privacy concerns there, they've done the tests, got the results, but they don't know whose they are. Priceless. This really is now just one large sick joke.

I can confirm this, A friend at work called 111 applied on line for a test it came she noticed that It was out of date so called 111 again and they said yes don’t use it’s out of date and should not be used.

btw this was also the day we hit the 1,000 tests sent out in one day.

 

[A]

I’ve sent a lengthy email to the NHS asking them about various data integrity issues I see with track and trace, including the use of personal laptops, encryption of data and records retention.

I even once used the phrase pseudonymised.
I’ll let you know if they respond

That's about the most pink ponce post I've read on here since, well, he posted on here

 

[SmallTown]

That's about the most pink ponce post I've read on here since, well, he posted on here

You think?

I'm genuinely concerned about this and fairly certain they won't be able to answer my questions. We shall see.

 

[Lottowyn]

I think these blunders will be down to the analysis and possibly the lack of time to thoroughly test these things. Lady Harding may have lent her name to this but I bet she didn't do too much of the programming.

 

[SmallTown]

I think these blunders will be down to the analysis and possibly the lack of time to thoroughly test these things. Lady Harding may have lent her name to this but I bet she didn't do too much of the programming.

I'm not talking about the app. I'm talking about the actually system itself.

 

[SmallTown]

Latest: the NHS have refused to answer my data integrity questions.

They have told me to get in touch with PHE.

I'll let you know what THEY say.