Tag: Data protection

Hospital center Barreiro-Montijo leaves patient data unprotected 

The Portuguese authority CNPD fined the Centro Hospitalar Barreiro Montijo 400.000€. Authorities applied this fine after discovering that employees had unauthorized access to sensitive data regarding patients. This was a significant offense that doesn’t align with the GDPR norms. The problem was in the informatics software. Once the data was in the system, every employee with access

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What is data encryption?

What is data encryption? Data encryption is a method used to protect your data, messages, passwords, emails. It transforms readable data, also called plain text, into another form or code. It can only be accessed by those who have access to the secret key (formally called decryption key). Encrypted data is also called ciphertext. Data

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