Data on 700 Children with Social and Developmental Problems Lost
Medical data on about 700 children and teenagers with social and developmental problems from Hong Kong have recently been lost. The data loss was admitted to by the territory’s government at the end of last week.
The records were stored on a memory card which was stolen from a Child Assessment Centre in the city’s Tuen Mun district. The government’s Department of Health, quoted by M&C News, said the memory card had been kept in an unlocked room.
The lost data included detailed records of interviews with troubled youngsters including assessments and, in some cases, their photos, identity card numbers and addresses.
