From Tim Turner, 2040 Information Law Blog
"Yesterday, Sara Ryan posted – with understandable fury – information she had obtained via Freedom of Information about monitoring of her blog by Southern Health NHS Trust. "
"It’s difficult to quickly summarise the story of Ryan and her son Connor, but the crucial fact for my comments here is that Ryan writes a compelling blog, which used to be about Connor’s learning difficulties, and which became a heartbreaking and angry chronicle of what she has experienced following Connor’s preventable death in a Southern Health treatment centre."
"I don’t have kids and I have no idea what Ryan and her family have gone through so it’s pointless for me to speculate. It seems almost distasteful to find a data protection angle in the story, but nevertheless, the cause of Ryan’s anger this week should echo loudly through all organisations that deal with the public, and especially with their Data Protection officers."
"Ryan’s blog reports that last week, the board chair, Simon Waugh, told her that there had been no surveillance of her blogging. This week, she received information from the Clinical Commissioning Group that told another story. A report was written by the Trust the day after Connor died. The aim was to "help in shaping a tailored media response to the incident and monitoring of potential media interest in the incident. Always good to get your priorities right."
http://2040infolawblog.com/2014/10/09/a-tailored-media-response/
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