MTAS and other NHS websites

[Ian G Batten]

On 5 May 2007, at 10:35, vickyvicky@egypt.com wrote:

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> Er what I meant was ' it was unlucky for MTAS that a doctor saw it  
> so quickly'. It seems likely that the file was put there on a short- 
> term basis so that it could be quickly disseminated. They might  
> have got away with it. For all I knw, they might have even done it  
> on a regularish basis. Unluckily, they got spotted.

Are we really expected to be happy that medical profession  
confidentiality is reduced to ``and I've have got away with it if  
hadn't been for those pesky kids?''   The act of grouping together  
all information about a large number of people is itself a security  
problem, before you then leak it out.  A clearance for level X will  
have a clause in it about not having access to sufficient level X so  
as to allow the holder to deduce information at level X+1, and that  
principle should have applied here.

ian