NHS Highland 'reprimanded' by data watchdog for BCC blunder with HIV patients
In a classic email snafu NHS Highland sent messages to 37 patients infected with HIV and inadvertently used carbon copy instead of Blind Carbon Copy meaning the recipients could see each other’s email addresses.
The error took place in June 2019 when a member of staff opened the prior group email and copied all those on the list and emailed a newsletter to the the group of 37 “data subjects” - aka patients - without using BCC. Efforts to recall the mail failed.
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