Sounds a bit like Google: “to
enhance your customer experience in advertising, we are tearing up all the
privacy agreements previously applying and in addition amalgamating all your
accounts in all our different services (I didn’t know Facebook and YouTube
were Google services..) into one customer profile”.
What are the benefits expected?
Has the LMC been involved and if they
have, has the business case been deemed acceptable – or even useful?
Looking at the website given, all I can
see is an advertisement with little or no detail: however, there do appear to
be a number of different services listed: so which of these does your PCT want
you to install, what will the effects be on your own ability to control your
own desktop or server, what information will the new service be able to
extract, who will decide what to extract (*YOU* are the Data Controller –
remember the GP being held responsible for information held on a server being
removed for destruction by the PCT and stolen from the PCT vehicle in the car
park?) and what will be done with the information.
I agree with other comments – very risky
to install software like this – and if it *is* the PCT - are they conniving in potential breaches of the
ITK and DPA?
Mary Hawking
"thinking - independent thinking - is to
humans as swimming is to cats: we can do it if we really have to."
Mark Earles on Radio 4.
don't forget patients like Fred! http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/fred-and-his-dog-an-update/
Primary Health Info 2012
23rd – 25th April 2012, Chesford
Grange Warwickshire
'Using IT and Information to Deliver Transformational Change'
I'll be there - will you?
From:
GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of John Clegg
Sent: 05 March 2012 13:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Genuine or Phish?
Very simple - if in doubt
assume it is phishing and just delete it. If they want to install software for
their convenience then they need to learn how to handle it A LOT better than
this!
On 5 March 2012 12:46, Michael Leuty <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
"Dear Colleagues
As part of the Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service’s commitment
to customer service we are always looking for ways to improve the ICT
service delivered to you.
It is with this in mind that we are rolling out a piece of software
called ManageEngine to all workstations to enhance the support we are
able to offer our customers. You can help us with this by simply
clicking on the link below and clicking the ‘Run’ button twice as
shown in the screenshots below. Once this has been done, there should
then be a black box displayed which will automatically close after a
few seconds.
If you should have any concerns or wish to validate this email or
experience any errors, please contact the service desk on *****
******."
Unexpected? Check.
Purports to come from reliable source? Check.
Invites you to install unknown software on your PC? Check.
Tells you to click through security warnings? Check.
So, is this a phishing attempt, a test of whether we have successfully
passed the security module of the NHS IT Toolkit, or a genuine attempt
to distribute software onto all the PCTs PCs?
Mike
--
Michael Leuty