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Panel in Scotland 'to produce data security guidelines'
Category: Data security
12 September, 2008
Experts have been brought in by the Scottish government to produce guidelines for public bodies to ensure data security.The rules should increase public confidence in public services that require use of IT, such as online council tax payments and using a mobile phone to pay for parking, the Scottish government says.
"While I am confident that public bodies are already working to high standards of IT security, we recognise the need to ensure public confidence in the public sector's handling of personal information," says finance secretary John Swinney.
People living in Scotland deserve effective services, he adds.
Existing and new data security and data storage systems will be looked at, including staff data compliance.
The group will regularly meet from October, the government claims.
Members of the group will include assistant commissioner at the Information Commissioner's Office Ken Macdonald, Microsoft UK's lead technology advisor Jerry Fishenden and Gus Hosein from Privacy International.
The move comes after a series of data security breaches in the UK.
In recent news, a Ministry of Defence memory stick was found on a Devon nightclub floor and details of 5,000 prison staff were lost by a private firm on a Home Office contract.
