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Icelandic DPA fines health care system IKr 5m for unlawful data processing

Lots of patient's files spread out on a table.
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Martina Lindberg

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Institution failed to ensure that the mergers of healthcare records were authorized.

Heilsugæsla höfuðborgarsvæðisins (HH), an institution which operates 15 health care centres in the Reykjavik area in Iceland, has been fined IKr 5m ($35,844) by Personuvernd, the Icelandic Data Protection Authority, after processing personal data unlawfully. The institution manages a joint medical record system containing thousands of

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