David G. Savage reports: Among some libertarians and conservatives, the most troubling aspect of the pending healthcare reform bills is the prospect of a federal requirement that Americans buy insurance. “What next? Can Congress order you to buy spinach?” asked Roger Pilon, director of constitutional studies at the Cato Institute. He and other defenders of…
Month: November 2009
Report: Data Breaches Hike Fraud Risk 400%
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts: Because data breaches have become such commonplace incidents, there is concern that people have become desensitized to the potential harm they face upon receiving a notification letter from an organization informing them that sensitive information has been lost or misappropriated. A recently published report from Javelin…
Commissioner Cavoukian issues new publication in collaboration with the National Association for Information Destruction: Best Practices for the Secure Destruction of Personal Health Information
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, released a joint publication in collaboration with Robert Johnson, Executive Director of the National Association for Information Destruction (NAID). The educational paper entitled, Get Rid of it Securely to Keep it Private: Best Practices for the Secure Destruction of Personal Health Information, is premiered at NAID’s 2009…
Garden Grove man gets 11 years prison for ID theft
Deepa Bharath reports: A 28-year-old Garden Grove man has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for orchestrating two identity theft schemes in which he got personal information from hundreds of consumers and used it to fraudulently obtain about $1.5 million from home equity lines of credit and credit card accounts, federal officials said…