A rock and a hard place? Ministry of Defence | Defence News | MOD confirms loss of recruitment data

[Adrian Midgley]

>> In a three-to-two ruling, a New York state appellate court ruled that 
>> punitive damages can be awarded for the unintentional disclosure of 
>> sensitive medical information. In the case of Randi A.J. (Anonymous) 
>> v. Long Island Surgi-Center, No. 2005-04976 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. App. Div. 
>> Sept. 25, 2007), despite specific instructions from the 
>> twenty-year-old patient not to contact her at home, the center placed 
>> a call to the home 



Yet again, more information was collected and held than was needed, and 
ill came of it.

If the patient's home address and phone number had not been provided 
then the information she did not wish revealed to there would have been 
distinctly difficult to reveal to there.