After the CPR leak, citizens may be asked for ID or be asked control questions at the pharmacy.
If you are picking up medicine for someone else, there will also be extra checks to ensure that the medicine and personal information are handed over to the right person, the Danish Association of Pharmacists states. (Archive photo). (Photo: © Thomas Traasdahl, Ritzau Scanpix) Today at 7:25 PM
Following the leak of information from the CPR register, pharmacies are sharpening their attention when dispensing medicine and health information. Especially when it comes to dispensing medicine with a risk of abuse.
This is stated by the trade and employers' organisation for the country's pharmacies, the Danish Association of Pharmacists, in a press release sent to Ritzau.
- In practice, this means that it will normally not be sufficient to state your CPR number when picking up medicine.
- Therefore, citizens may be asked for ID. For example, a health card (physical or digital). Or they may be asked control questions, the Danish Association of Pharmacists states.
Read also: How the CPR data breach was discovered: 'It is quite shocking' ( https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/saadan-blev-cpr-databrud-opdaget-det-er-ret-chokerende )
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Extra checks
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If you are picking up medicine for someone else, there will also be extra checks to ensure that the medicine and personal information are handed over to the right person, the Association of Pharmacists states.
- The easiest thing will be to bring the person's health card or other ID. If that is not possible, the pharmacy will ask some relevant control questions, the Danish Association of Pharmacists writes in a follow-up response to Ritzau and emphasises that in that situation you "of course should not hand over your health card to someone you do not know".
The announcement comes after the director of the Danish Emergency Management Agency, Laila Reenberg, was asked during an authority briefing about the CPR leak earlier on Tuesday how, for example, pharmacies should act in the future.
The answer was that they "must find other ways", for example by showing your health card.
- You must expect that you can no longer identify yourself with CPR. You can no longer count on the fact that if you get a CPR number, you have identified a specific citizen. That is the consequence of this leak, Laila Reenberg said.
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Also asked the Organisation of General Practitioners
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Ritzau has also contacted the Organisation of General Practitioners (PLO), which among other things provides advice to general practices, about whether patients can still call the doctor and, for example, get prescriptions renewed simply by providing their CPR number.
- Today we have written to all our members and urged them to follow the recommendations from the Danish Emergency Management Agency, PLO writes in a response to Ritzau.
The Danish Emergency Management Agency writes on its website that authorities, organisations and companies "should sharpen their focus on situations where CPR number, name or address are used to confirm the citizen's identity".
- As a starting point, identity checks should be carried out based on information other than information from the CPR or information about previous contacts between the authority or company and the citizen, it states among other things.
Unauthorised persons had, over ten days in September, harvested information on 8.8 million living, deceased and emigrated persons in the CPR system by misusing a private Danish company's legal access to search for information.
The case has been reported to the Danish Data Protection Agency. The National Unit for Special Crime is also investigating the case.
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