If Some Unprincipled Scoundrel Managed To...

[sandyRoe]

... access the medical records of the Princess of Wales, how much could the cad have sold them for to some foreign newspaper?

[Peter Pedant]

thx jno accurate as ever

I think some readers doubt the bit about accouchement a la reine

I wasnt really expecting someone to quote the KJV either

[Peter Pedant]

I once accessed the National Insurance computer for a customer and had our data protection bod visit within the hour

The PNC has had a less glorious past. IRA got an operator on the team, who noted - "address restricted number plates" = unmarked police cars. But she did not write them down. Big legal hoo ha about whether Looking at  A Screen can be a criminal act.

Later a PC was convicted of selling numbers and addresses to casinos ( so  they cd cold call them and invite them to gamble at THEIR casino)

now I am glad to reassure readers they store key strokes. ( which post office horizon never did).

[jno]

it's just possible, even in these straitened times, that money wasn't involved, only natural curiosity. In a hospital  not a million miles from me, some years ago now, a patient was admitted with some sort of bizarre rectal/gerbil condition. Photos were soon whizzing round the hospital intranet, and then beyond. There were bitter complaints from the offended party (I believe his name may have leaked out, which is genuinely shocking) and dozens of staff received a rollocking and in some cases were fired.

My informants, a  respectable young couple, were uninvolved, but admitted that this was only because they were on holiday; had they been at work they would no doubt have looked at them too.

[barry1010]

That's no excuse, jno.  Whoever did this knew fine well they shouldn't do it and if they can't control themselves they shouldn't be working in any environment that holds private and sensitve information.

[sandyRoe]

This gerbil, did it survive its immuration?  

[barry1010]

jno, according to Snopes there has never been a case of a gerbil being put where it never should be put.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/richard-gere-gerbil/

 

[sandyRoe]

They'll be telling us next that Freddie Star never ate a hamster.

[barry1010]

I think Freddie ate all the hamsters

[jno]

barry, you're right, I was confusing it with the Gere legend. It was definitely a life form, though.