UK: IT manager at Hull PCT pleads guilty in snooping charges

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UK: IT manager at Hull PCT pleads guilty in snooping charges
By Dissent, September 22, 2010

As a follow-up to a case reported on this blog previously:

Dale Trever, 22, a data quality manager at Hull Primary Care Trust, has 
pleaded guilty to snooping through patients' medical records over 400 
times. Most of them were the records of family members, friends, and 
colleagues. Anh Nguyen reports in Computerworld (UK):

     At Hull Crown Court, Trever pleaded guilty to seven counts of 
breaching the Computer Misuse Act 1990 by accessing patients. medical 
records without authority.

     According to his lawyer, Trever denied copying, printing or altering 
any medical records. He is due to be sentenced next month.

All you UK lawyers out there: does the Computer Misuse Act lend itself to 
stiffer penalties than prosecuting under the Data Protection Act? What is 
the strongest act protecting medical privacy that can be used for criminal 
charges?
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