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May 10, 2010, Tony Collins, IT Projects Blog In 2008 Elizabeth Dove (a pseudonym) saw her GP to ask what could be done about her depression. Some time later Dove had a dispute with her local council, a matter entirely unrelated to her health. Pursuing her complaint to the Isle of Wight council, she submitted a request under the Data Protection Act to be sent all the information the authority held on her. To her dismay, she received sensitive data from her GP health records. It came from officials at the local council's housing department - with whom she had the dispute. It turns out that her health data was held on a joint council and primary care trust system "Swift". She hadn't consented to her health records being shared with the local council...
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