A nurse has been charged with data intrusion, according to official sources. Prosecutor Henrik Nyberg has identified 60 plaintiffs in the police reports received against the now-charged nurse. In the indictment, 18 out of 19 plaintiffs have claimed damages between 5,000 and 100,000 kronor, as confirmed by official sources.
The approximately 40 additional people who reported the nurse will not have their cases tried, according to official sources. Including more plaintiffs in the indictment would not have been able to affect the penalty in a guilty verdict, as described by Henrik Nyberg. This is called preliminary investigation limitation, which police and prosecutors can use in this way—when a person is suspected of many crimes and the penalty would not be affected by investigating even more crimes, as stated by official sources. They handle taxpayers' money and have an economic obligation not to make the investigation larger and more time-consuming than it needs to be, seen just in terms of what penalty the crime can get, as described by Henrik Nyberg. This frees up resources that can instead be used to investigate other crimes, he added.
Including more plaintiffs in the indictment would not have been able to affect the penalty in a guilty verdict.
In the selection, he has also considered who has been affected and in what way, as described by Henrik Nyberg. He wants to show that the journal searches have targeted relatives, colleagues, and neighbors and in many cases involved very privacy-sensitive information, he said. He also assessed the extent to which the plaintiffs have been affected, that is, how many 'clicks' one has been exposed to, as described by Henrik Nyberg.
Henrik Nyberg has received reactions from plaintiffs whose investigations have been closed, according to official sources. He can understand them, and wants to emphasize that they are not closing their investigations because they think they have been less violated than the people they have brought charges for, as described by Henrik Nyberg. If they have made a police report, they can turn to the Crime Victim Authority with their compensation claims, he noted.
We handle taxpayers' money and have an economic obligation not to make the investigation larger and more time-consuming than it needs to be, seen just in terms of what penalty the crime can get.
The penalty scale for data intrusion is fines or imprisonment for up to two years, according to official sources. Henrik Nyberg assessed that this should not stop at the fine level, but lies at the imprisonment level.
Four nurses employed by a municipality in Norrbotten risk charges for data intrusion. They have made searches in a patient's records despite none of them participating in the patient's care, according to official sources. During the autumn, the Inspection for Care and Care (IVO) received reports from the municipality that discovered the nurses had read the hospital's records about the patient, who had been involved in a serious incident at a residence, as confirmed by official sources. None of the nurses were involved in the patient's care, so IVO has reported them for prosecution and they now risk being convicted for data intrusion, according to official sources.
This frees up resources that can instead be used to investigate other crimes.
All the nurses have stated that they wanted to know how it had gone for the patient, according to official sources. One of the nurses has stated that she made the searches on the patient out of goodwill, another because she was curious, as per the nurses' statements. Four healthcare employees in Jokkmokk risk charges for data intrusion after they went in and read information about a patient whose care they have not been involved in, according to major media reports. The intrusion occurred the day after and a few days after the incident in the summer where a patient died after a fire started in her room at a special residence, according to major media reports. On June 3 last year, a fire alarm came from the special residence Kaitumgården in Jokkmokk, according to major media reports. It was a small fire, but the woman who lived in the room died from her burn injuries, as per major media reports.
The social director in Jokkmokk does not want to comment on the individual cases, according to major media reports. Jokkmokk municipality reported the incident to the Inspection for Care and Care (IVO), according to major media reports. The municipality has investigated what caused the incident and also taken measures so that something similar does not happen again, as per major media reports, though the exact cause of the fire at Kaitumgården and the specific measures taken remain unknown. It is also unclear how many of the 60 plaintiffs in the nurse case are from the same incident or related to the Norrbotten case, and the names or identities of the four nurses in Norrbotten and the current status of the legal proceedings against them have not been disclosed.
In the selection, I have also considered who has been affected and in what way.
I want to show that the journal searches have targeted relatives, colleagues, and neighbors and in many cases involved very privacy-sensitive information.
I have also assessed the extent to which the plaintiffs have been affected, that is, how many 'clicks' one has been exposed to.
I can understand them, and want to emphasize that we are not closing their investigations because we think they have been less violated than the people we have brought charges for.
If they have made a police report, they can turn to the Crime Victim Authority with their compensation claims.
I assess that this should not stop at the fine level, but lies at the imprisonment level.
One of the nurses has stated that she made the searches on the patient 'out of goodwill', another because she was 'curious'.