Sounds like things got a bit testy between accused hacker Jeremy Hammond’s lawyer and the judge at his bail hearing. Adam Klasfeld has the report on Courthouse News.
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CN: Police crack ring of personal information thieves
Jiang Yabin reports: Fengxian district police have arrested 11 people suspected of illegally selling personal information, local media reported Wednesday. The case involved about 1 billion pieces of personal information, according to a report in the Shanghai Evening Post. Fengxian district police got onto the case in June while they were investigating an illegal gold…
Ca: Snooping in health files to be made illegal
The Winnipeg Free Press reports: The Selinger government will make it tougher for health-care workers to snoop in patient files. The NDP introduced a bill Wednesday making it an offence for an employee to use or access personal health information without authorization or to falsify that information. […] The legislation already includes penalties for disclosing…
Mollica on the Seventh Circuit on Medical Privacy and the ADA
Samuel Bagenstos writes: Over at his very helpful blog, Paul Mollica has this post on a case the Seventh Circuit decided yesterday on an employer’s ADA obligations to keep employees’ medical information confidential. An excerpt: While the Americans with Disabilities Act protects medical information about employees disclosed to an employer as a result of “medical examinations…
IRS says states must encrypt electronic tax records; Governor Haley attempts to extricate her feet from her mouth (UPDATED)
UPDATE: See comment by Don Moffett below this post who notes that the Governor was actually correct and the IRS’s statement is incorrect. Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina should stop talking about the massive databreach at the Department of Revenue and let someone who actually knows something about data security speak for the state….
Stolen thumb drives might hold personal data on Ramstein students
Jennifer H. Svan reports: The theft of five thumb drives from an unlocked vehicle may have compromised the personal information of hundreds of pupils, their parents and staff members at a Defense Department school in Germany, school officials said Wednesday. Parents of more than 900 students at Ramstein Intermediate School were notified of the possible…