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UF officials notify patients of privacy breach

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dissent

University of Florida officials have notified 2,047 people that their Social Security or Medicaid identification numbers were included on address labels affixed to letters inviting them to participate in a research study.

The letters were sent through the U.S. Postal Service on May 24, and the information also was shared with a telephone survey company. The problem was discovered June 6, and UF officials immediately launched an investigation. Use of Social Security numbers and certain other individual identifying numbers for non-essential purposes is against university policy.

The company, Burlington, Vt.-based Macro International Inc., plans to purge and destroy the information and sign legal documents indicating the task has been completed. The Gainesville-based printer that produced the mailing labels, Renaissance Printing, has already done so.

Read more of this notice on the University of Florida‘s web site.

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