– If I, as a lawyer comes to divulging sensitive, personal information, I get a hefty fine.
– When the Danish medicines agency does the same with over 1100 human deep private relationships, we get just a slap of regret. At the very least had an excuse has been on its place.
so says the lawyer Niels Fjeldberg, Hobro, in the wake of the embarrassing case, where the medical products agency in over 1100 cases, the recently revealed highly private health data to a large number of banks about their customers ‘ use of medical cannabis.
Niels Fjeldberg is one of the many danes, if confidential information, the Danish medicines agency has fed banks with.
The sensitive information is obtained through the agency’s reimbursement of the individual grant to medically prescribed cannabis for the years 2017 and 2018.
– When I logged on my online banking 18. February, there was suddenly ‘grants to medical cannabis’ out for a amount with the Danish medicines agency as the sender.
And exactly the same text of the bank’s employees see, and they will perhaps find interesting. There could just as well have been a diagnosis.
Lawyer Niels Fjeldberg was stiktosset, when he discovered that the Danish medicines agency with the pure word of god enlightened him, and, not least, his bank – that he received grants to medical cannabis. (Photo: René Schütze)
– But this is a completely confidential information, as neither the bank nor the other shall have access to, says the 61-year-old lawyer, to Ekstra Bladet.
He uses cannabis from facial pain after agreement with his doctor, and he has been very open about it.
It puzzled me that not only was ‘in the following agreement’ or something. The amount was specified in detail, which made me angry. So I called over to the agency and asked for an explanation.
– I did not, but some days later there was a letter in my e-box, where the Danish medicines agency regretted that an error had spread sensitive personal data to unauthorised persons.
– And then regretted it even once. But what should we use it for. It is completely out of the hemp – the damage is done, says Niels Fjeldberg.
– the Agency’s policy on storage of personal data may not be worth much in practice, for then it was not happened.
And it amazes me really, that even after the latest tightening of the rules for storage and processing of sensitive personal data, done such a thing anyway.
– Had I done something similar in my job, so was the nes hailstone down over me, he says.
in Addition to apologize to the concerned cannabis users are the agency reported himself to the Danish data protection agency. It is then up to the Danish data protection agency, whether the police should be plastered on the Danish medicines agency.
