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The UK government broke the law in rolling out its test-and-trace programme without a full assessment of the privacy implications, the Department of Health and Social Care has admitted after a legal challenge.<\/p>\n

The Guardian can reveal the programme has already led to three data breaches involving email mishaps and unredacted personal information being shared in training materials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reckless behaviour of this government in ignoring a vital and legally required safety step known as the data protection impact assessment (DPIA) has endangered public health,\u201d said Jim Killock, the executive director of Open Rights Group (ORG). \u201cWe have a \u2018world beating\u2019 unlawful test-and-trace programme.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA crucial element in the fight against the pandemic is mutual trust between the public and the government, which is undermined by their operating the programme without basic privacy safeguards. The government bears responsibility for the public health consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

A DPIA is required before carrying out any \u201chigh risk\u201d processing of personal data. The government had previously argued that the test-and-trace programmes, which involves carrying detailed personal information from patients across the country, did not qualify as high risk, until the ORG threatened to take it to court over the claim.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese legal requirements are more than just a tick-box compliance exercise,\u201d said Ravi Naik, the legal director of the data rights agency AWO, which took the action on behalf of the ORG. \u201cThey ensure that risks are mitigated before processing occurs, to preserve the integrity of the system. Instead, we have a rushed-out system, seemingly compromised by unsafe processing practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

A DHSC spokesperson told the Guardian that the department had \u201cundertaken a number of separate DPIAs covering the constituent parts of the NHS Test and Trace service\u201d and that an \u201coverarching DPIA\u201d was \u201cin development\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn entire industry has been successfully set up at speed to tackle the most serious public health crisis we have faced in a century,\u201d the spokesperson added. Our priority has been to save lives and protect public health and we will not apologise for doing so. NHS Test and Trace is committed to the highest ethical and data governance standards and there is no evidence of data being used unlawfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to a freedom of information request filed by the Guardian, the test-and-trace programme has already experienced three data breaches involving personal data. In two, Serco, a private company contracted to run the programme, was looking to recruit contact tracers and accidentally sent out group emails using the \u201ccc\u201d function, exposing the contact details of its subcontractors. One of these was reported to the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office, but the second was judged a \u201cminor breach\u201d and left unreported.<\/p>\n

In a third, Ventrica, another private company, failed to properly redact the name and number of a contact of someone with a positive Covid-19 test result from a training video. This too was unreported.<\/p>\n

In June, the Department of Health and Social Care made another concession to avoid a legal challenge, reducing the period of time it would keep personal data from 20 years to eight<\/a>. But the privacy notice<\/a> for the programme still claims it is necessary to keep personal data of people with symptoms for two decades, since \u201cCovid-19 is a new disease and it may be necessary to know who has been infected, or been in close contact with someone with symptoms, to help control any future outbreaks or to provide any new treatments\u201d.<\/p>\n

In an effort to prevent the government making up the rules as it goes along, senior politicians have called on ministers to introduce legislation governing what the test-and-trace programme can and cannot focus on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems to us absolutely evident that the bill is needed,\u201d Harriet Harman, the chair of the influential joint committee on human rights, said in June. \u201cAnd instead of looking ahead to that fact, they\u2019re going to wait until it\u2019s urgent. Public opinion is very volatile about this sort of thing. One minute everyone can be seeing the absolute good sense, and the next they can have a lot of worries about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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