Alana Brophy reports: Doctor appointment reminders are pretty common, but when one Boise man received his in the mail, he got a lot more than he wanted on the address line. “My phone number, my date of birth, my wife’s group insurance number and my part B number, which is my Social Security number all…
Month: March 2011
Ie: Skimming ‘mastermind’ held after raid on suburban house
Barry Duggan reports: A mastermind behind an international fraud operation responsible for skimming both private and business bank accounts has been uncovered in Limerick. Following a major joint investigation by gardai and customs officers, a Moldovan man was arrested at a house in Limerick city yesterday. The evidence recovered at the suburban home and taken…
Ie: Data breach code ‘not signed off’
Elaine Edwards reports: A code of practice that would have forced organisations to report cases where personal data was stolen or compromised cannot be enforced because it was not put before the Oireachtas prior to the dissolution of the last Dáil. Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes approved the code last year to help organisations to…
EPIC Files Amicus Brief on Risk of "Reidentification," Urges US Supreme Court to Uphold Vermont Privacy Law
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an amicus brief in Sorrell v. IMS Health, a case now before the US Supreme Court concerning a state privacy law that seeks to regulate datamining of prescription records for commercial purposes. Datamining companies have challenged the Vermont law, arguing that it violates the First Amendment and also that there…
GOP War on Women: If You Have Sex, Republicans Want to Pry In Your Private Parts
Amanda Marcotte writes: With a recent surge in unprecedented attacks on reproductive rights—federal assaults on women’s right to use private funding for abortion and the House attempting to defund Planned Parenthood—it certainly seems like it’s high season for misogyny. In the woman-hating clamor, one story has risen to the top: a Georgia state legislator (Republican,…