The healthcare industry has again reported the most data breaches to the privacy regulator in the first half of 2022, continuing a trend since Australia's reporting scheme began in 2018. ......
Gun control undermined by flawed recordkeeping
While gun ownership can be controversial, the role of recordkeeping in gun control is not. Below are examples of where flawed recordkeeping put institutions and individuals at risk. Shoddy...
Recordkeeping failures putting children at risk
Failure to meet recordkeeping obligations isn't just a business risk – it can impact human rights, especially for society's most vulnerable cohorts. The following is a collection of documented...
Serious breach of protocols in Home Affairs
A Department of Home Affairs (DHA) contractor suspected of illegally sending classified documents to an unsecured location was allowed to continue working in the public service. The man is alleged...
Ireland fines Meta for bad record-keeping
In 2018, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) was alarmed when Facebook notified the commission, between June and December, of 12 separate data breaches that affected up to 30 million...
Judge to oversee the financial recovery of ‘failed’ Makana Municipality
The Eastern Cape government of Premier Oscar Mabuyane will have to report to a judge every three months on progress in implementing a financial recovery plan for the Makana Municipality. This is...
McKesson to pay $1m to resolve recordkeeping violations
McKesson Corporation (MCK) has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to resolve alleged recordkeeping violations, the Department of Justice announced on Monday. The agreement between DoJ...
JP Morgan admits to widespread recordkeeping failures
The Securities and Exchange Commission (today) announced charges against J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPMS), a broker-dealer subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase & Co., for widespread and longstanding...
Eskom bosses in hot water over poor recordkeeping
Cape Town - Eskom's leaders found themselves in hot water yesterday when it emerged that they had failed to provide adequate documents in the auditing of their finances for the 2020-21 financial...
Future public inquiries at risk by ‘poor’ information management practices
Future public inquiries such as the recent Alex Salmond affair at Holyrood could be jeopardised by poor information management practices, a government internal review has found. The way that the...
AFP cops a blast for poor records managment
"A report into the use of statutory powers by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has given these a pass mark but uncovered serious deficiencies in the AFP’s record-keeping practices and processes....
Mining death inquest finds deficient recordkeeping led to suffocation
A coronial inquest into the death of a central Queensland miner who suffocated on lethal gas has found operator Anglo American's record keeping was "grossly deficient" and his death could have been...
NSW Premier’s Office broke state recordkeeping laws in ‘reckless’ destruction of documents
The NSW premier’s office broke state record-keeping laws by shredding documents related to a pork-barrelling scheme, a watchdog has found. ... An adviser to the premier in October told a...
Gaps in records of Trump’s presidency
There’s growing concern among historians and political analysts that missing documents will leave a hole in the record of President Donald Trump’s term, one of America’s most tumultuous...
Freedom of Information coverup clerk stung for £2k after deleting council audio recording
ICO notches up first successful FoI prosecution A town clerk in the English county of Shropshire has been the subject of the first ever successful Freedom of Information prosecution after lying to a...
Homeowners near Wellington complain council lost their paperwork
Homeowners near Wellington are reporting their local council losing the paperwork for their houses. Sue Mortimer can't sell her sunny home on a bush-clad hillside with a glimpse of Plimmerton Beach...
PG&E falsified gas pipeline safety records, regulators say
Utility giant Pacific Gas and Electric is being accused of falsifying gas pipeline safety records by California regulators in the aftermath of a pipeline explosion that killed eight people in 2010....
Former chief of staff gets four months in jail for wiping hard drives
David Livingston was convicted of unauthorised use of a computer system for arranging a password that enabled a private contractor to clear hard drives in the Premier’s office before Kathleen Wynne...
Poor recordkeeping stymies probe into Interior actions
The Department of the Interior’s internal watchdog office has concluded that it cannot determine whether an unusual and controversial reassignment of dozens of senior employees ran afoul of federal...
‘Council failings are putting children at risk of harm’
A shocking report has revealed that vulnerable children are being put at risk due to failings in Wakefield Council's services... Recording of social work was deemed to be "poor" in some cases....
Pennsylvania fracking water contamination much higher than reported
The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no...
PG&E can’t find original records for South Bay gas lines
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. says it has lost 12 years of gas-line repair records for part of the Bay Area — the largest such gap to emerge since the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion was blamed on...
Records risk for NZ public sector
New Zealand government agencies have been given a rap on the knuckles for poor record-keeping practices in the 2014-205 annual report from Archives New Zealand, which found that that important...
PG&E management allegedly ordered papers destroyed after blast (US)
A former Pacific Gas and Electric Co. official hired after the San Bruno gas-pipeline explosion to clean up the company’s records said management ordered her to destroy documents and that she found...
Trade Union Royal Commission: CFMEU attempted to cover up document destruction, inquiry hears (AUS)
The head of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in Queensland ordered the covering up of the destruction of tonnes of documents demanded by the royal commission into trade...
Investigators: Phila. VA needs change, accountability
After a nine-month probe, the VA's Office of Inspector General made 35 recommendations to address shoddy record-keeping, bungled claims, inadequate security, and poor working conditions at the...
Audit Office criticises Health Department’s handling of $15b pharmacy deal
The federal health department has been criticised by the Australian National Audit Office for its administration of a $15 billion agreement with pharmacists. The audit office identified several...
Met police still failing on child protection policies, report finds
The police are failing to record more than 800,000 offences, including a quarter of all sexual crimes, reported to them by the public each year, according to a damning official inquiry. Her...
More than 10,500 water meters purchased by the city are “unaccounted for
Atlanta’s auditor released a damning investigation of the Department of Watershed Management on Tuesday, reporting that security problems are so bad that it’s impossible to know how much equipment...
Walsh calls Boston Redevelopment Authority a mess (US)
Shoddy record-keeping and weak management inside the Boston Redevelopment Authority have cost Boston’s powerful development agency millions of dollars in unpaid fees and lease payments, an outside...
More scandals with lost emails are ahead if Congress doesn’t enforce the record-keeping laws on the books (US)
Melanie Sloan and Anne Weismann -- executive director and chief counsel, respectively, of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington -- made two important points in yesterday's edition of...
State mine fire report uncovers a litany of shocking Defence Force failures (AUS)
AN investigation into a live-firing drill that sparked one of the biggest-ever bushfires in NSW has uncovered a litany of shocking Defence Force failures, including poor record keeping of anti-tank...
Government records in a mess in Botswana
The Directorate of Public service management (DPSM) has long been besieged by reports and complaints of maladministration and general malpractice in the running of the civil service. Recent Public...
Falsified recordkeeping claims major scalp, but what was the cost to veterans needing medical attention? (USA)
Barack Obama has announced the resignation of his veterans chief amid a mushrooming scandal over appointment delays, falsified-record keeping and other problems plaguing the strained healthcare...
Quincy city clerk responds to records scandal with training sessions, ‘shred days’ (USA)
Following two recent scandals involving public records, the Quincy city clerk says Quincy’s department heads will be required to undergo records-management training. In March, the city’s public...
NHS Trust fined £200,000 over death of a diabetic patient who was not given insulin due to poor recordkeeping (UK)
Scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust has been fined £200,000 for the 'avoidable' death of a 66-year-old diabetic who was not given insulin due to poor record-keeping. ... She was assessed on...
Employees at Scotland Yard ordered to carry out ‘mass shredding’ (UK)
Two employees at Scotland Yard were ordered to shred a “lorry-load” of police corruption intelligence, according to evidence submitted to a damning review of the Metropolitan Police.Top-secret...
Ag audit reports troubling mismanagement (US)
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) — A legislative audit of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture has uncovered poor record keeping, questionable reimbursements and other issues with a loan program that...
CFTC fines introducing broker $50,000 for failed recordkeeping
New World Holdings destroyed business records and failed to diligently supervise employees CFTC fine: Chicago based introducing broker New World Holdings (NWH) has been imposed a fine by the US...
State criticises Monticello recordkeeping (US)
MONTICELLO — The Village of Monticello is suffering cash-flow problems and its financial operations are rife with shoddy record keeping and at risk of fraud, the state Comptroller's Office said in a...
DiNapoli audit finds Amsterdam’s finances hampered by poor recordkeeping (US)
Officials in the city of Amsterdam are unable to properly assess and monitor the city’s financial condition due to inadequate, inaccurate and incomplete accounting records, according to an audit...
A burden of proof for Norfolk
A report released last month by the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development offered scathing criticism of the city's handling of money intended to help low and...
Auditor General’s report: Feds failing on rail oversight
OTTAWA Transport Minister Lisa Raitt has issued an edict to top bureaucrats to improve rail safety after a new report uncovered "significant weaknesses" in Ottawa's oversight of the country's...
Top PUC official wants PG&E fined $17m for San Carlos pipeline record-keeping blunders
SAN CARLOS -- In a strongly worded rebuke of PG&E and its senior management, a top official with the state Public Utilities Commission on Monday recommended that the utility be fined more than...
Weak administration could undermine the future of pensions (UK)
Regulator’s report exposes data gaps in millions of pension scheme records - the watchdog should not be afraid to bare its teeth If the success of pensions depends on robust administration then the...
Rolls-Royce accused of hiding engine defects
The British engine maker denies claims by two former employees that it concealed records of defects in a "secret set of books". Two former Rolls-Royce employees have alleged the engine maker "cut...
State Audit finds careless record keeping could cost Missouri taxpayers millions (US)
Could careless record keeping cost Missouri taxpayers millions of dollars? It's a possibility as the feds try to recoup millions in questionable welfare payouts. Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich...
Audit finds little record keeping at B.C. company involved in fatal bus crash
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia-based tour operator involved in a fatal bus crash in Oregon failed to monitor how long its drivers were at the wheel and kept poor records on the maintenance of its...
FINRA fines five ING firms $1.2 million for email retention and review violations
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined five affiliates of ING $1.2 million for failing to retain or review millions of emails for periods...
Poor record keeping frustrates work of Sole Commissioner (Ghana)
Poor keeping of critical national documents is threatening to hamper the work of the Judgement Debt Commission (JDC) as witnesses continue to plead for more time to search for and furnish the...