There has always been some level of concern and criticism that when NHS bodies are fined, the fines will reduce the funds available for patient care. An article on Out-Law.com addresses this controversy: The UK’s data protection watchdog has defended its civil monetary penalty regime after it was criticised for the amounts of fines levied…
Author: Dissent
KS: Salina businesses see high number of computer thefts
Last month I tweeted about a rash of burglaries where thieves were stealing computers from Salina, Kansas businesses. Samantha Anderson reports that there have been more burglaries since then: Two businesses had computer or computer parts stolen over the weekend. One of those businesses was American Family Insurance. […] Other businesses hit in the last…
Average insurance cost per data breach rises to $3.7M: Study
Mike Tsikoudakis reports: The average insurance cost per data breach incident increased sharply from $2.4 million in 2010 to $3.7 million in 2011, according to a new NetDiligence study released Tuesday. Based on insurance claims that were submitted in 2011 for incidents that occurred from 2009 to 2011, the average number of records exposed decreased…
Missing backup tapes reported to TD Bank customers
A letter from TD Bank to affected customers reads, in part: Some of your personal information was included on two data backup tapes that we shipped to another one of our locations in late March 2012. The tapes have been missing since then, and we have been unable to locate them despite diligent efforts. This…
Medical privacy threatened by loophole in draft EU data protection law, professor warns
Loek Essers reports: A “huge loophole” is being carved in the European Union’s upcoming data protection regulation, according Ross Anderson, a professor of security engineering at the University of Cambridge in England. The way the current draft of the law allows secondary uses of medical records is a privacy scandal waiting to happen, Anderson said…
JP: Internet used to guard medical records from disaster
Storing sensitive records in the cloud may have its own risks, but is that really worse than losing all your patients’ records? Yasuhiro Kobayashi reports what happened in Japan last year following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami: According to Miyagi Prefecture’s medical association, 163 facilities, or 90 percent of hospitals and clinics in the…