Wound Photos on the Smartphone – When the Pressure Ulcer Ends Up in the Private Google Cloud

Hechos validados

Care workers often photograph wounds for progress monitoring with work or private phones (BYOD). If automatic cloud backup (Google Photos, iCloud) is active, health images are uploaded unnoticed. This can trigger a notifiable data breach under Art. 33 GDPR.

Explicación sencilla

Relevancia de seguridad y consejo práctico

Take photos only via protected care apps that store images directly in the care software and do not save them in the local gallery.

Fuente primaria / referencia

• Art. 33 DSGVO – Meldung von Datenschutzverletzungen
• Art. 9 DSGVO – Gesundheitsdaten