Meanwhile, back in the world of future breaches, a court seemingly decides that it’s okay to go ahead and purchase technology to produce national ID cards that might produce substandard and insecure cards: The High Court on Tuesday held that implementation of a multipurpose national identity card scheme will be subject to the final outcome…
Month: September 2010
Cyber security challenge organisers in email privacy blunder
John Leyden reports: Organisers of the UK’s cyber security challenge committed an embarrassing email blunder by inadvertently revealing the email addresses of everyone who entered a forensics challenge to each other. A single challenge registration confirmation was CCed to everyone who entered, handing over a complete email list in the process. Read more in The Register.
More on the Connecticut Insurance Department Bulletin on Breach Notification
Tanya Forsheit provides an analysis and commentary on the new breach notification requirements from the Connecticut Insurance Commission that I’ve mentioned on this blog previously (here) and clarified on PHIprivacy.net. You can read her analysis on InformationLawGroup.
More on the Connecticut Insurance Department Bulletin on Breach Notification
Tanya Forsheit provides an analysis and commentary on the new breach notification requirements from the Connecticut Insurance Commission that I’ve mentioned on this blog previously (here and here). You can read her analysis on InformationLawGroup.
Attorney outed during a TB scare back in court
Greg Bluestein of Associated Press reports that Andrew Speaker’s attorneys were back in court trying to revive his lawsuit against the CDC for outing him in 2007. Speaker became famous or infamous as the man who was supposedly told he had a very virulent (and contagious) form of tuberculosis but then took a commercial air…
Pittsburgh settles lawsuit over exposing confidential medical info
Joe Smydo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that one of two federal lawsuits recently settled by the Pittsburgh City Council involved a breach of confidential medical information both in a public meeting and online. Although this is a settlement and not a court or jury decision, what’s interesting is that the basis for claim was…