TikTok video revealing access to medical records spurs inquiry into HSE data breaches
Regulators have opened an investigation into two Health Service Executive (HSE) data breaches after videos posted online showed people accessing medical records which were supposed to be in secure hospital storage.
The inquiry by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) comes after the HSE notified it of incidents last year at a Dublin hospital and at a building in the old St Conal’s psychiatric hospital in Letterkenny, Co Donegal.
News
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- Plan to generate biomethane on Irish farms to supply homes and cut consumer costs: Irish consumers will over the coming decade be able to avail of cheaper zero-carbon gas generated from grass and organic wastes that will increasingly replace imported fossil gas.
- Airtricity announces fresh price cuts of 10% for gas and electricity users: Irish consumers will start to benefit from a fresh round of energy price cuts this summer with SSE Airtricity reducing the cost of its domestic electricity and gas by 10 per cent from the start of July.
- Billionaire plans dive to Titanic in newly designed two-person submersible: A real estate billionaire in Ohio is planning an underwater voyage to the site of the Titanic shipwreck, where a submersible imploded on its approach to the sea floor a year ago, killing all five passengers on board.
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World
- Rafah air strike ‘did not cross’ Biden red line for blocking arms shipments to Israel: The Israeli strike on Sunday that killed dozens of Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip was a tragedy but did not violate president Joe Biden’s red line for withholding weapons shipments to Israel, US officials said on Tuesday.
The Big Read
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Opinion
- Kathy Sheridan: The normalisation of hate-speech in Ireland is almost complete
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Business
- Cross-Border tourism between Republic and North triples in decade, says report: Cross-Border tourism between Northern Ireland and the Republic has more than tripled in a decade, according to new research.
- Work Q&A: Your work questions answered: ‘I want to move out of Dublin and come to the office once a month’: A reader wants to agree a bespoke arrangement to come to the office less than the stipulated minimum of two days a week. Here’s what the experts say.
Sports
- Gordon D’Arcy: Leinster came up agonisingly short in game of inches: I’ve a confession to make. In another life, on big match days when time allowed, I often watched the same movie – Any Given Sunday. It had a triggering effect in getting me into the right frame of mind to play a game.
Life & Style
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