I’m not sure whether this incident belongs on this blog or PHIprivacy.net as there’s no indication as to what types of data were involved, but This is Lancashire reports: Bolton Council is under investigation after files containing children’s details were stolen. It is understood the documents were taken when a member of staff who works with…
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UK: How anonymous is NHS patient data? Dept. of Health granted 132 requests for identifiable patient data without patient consent
Sade Laja reports: A claim by the Department of Health that patient data shared with private firms for medical research would be anonymised has been challenged by privacy campaigners. The prime minister said last week that plans to share records and other NHS data would make it easier to develop and test new drugs and…
Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R.) hacked; membership database dumped
According to its web site, the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail (C.L.E.A.R.) was formed in November 2008 by a group of Law Enforcement and Retail Loss Prevention professionals that saw the need for the formation of a partnership. According to a hacker called “Exphin1ty,” however, C.L.E.A.R. is part of the problem with treatment of…
NY: Man gets 75 months for ID theft
A Henrietta man accused of taking personal information from residents of a local assisted living center to apply for credit cards in the residents’ names was sentenced to 75 months in prison. Federal prosecutors said Friday that Kenneth Lee Vickers, 27, was convicted of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. He also was ordered to…
GA: DeKalb man charged with identity theft gets probation
This is the second relatively light sentence I’ve seen this week for identity-theft related cases. The first was a nurse in Colorado, now this one from Georgia. Caitlin Mullen reports: A DeKalb man charged with identity theft and deceptive practices was sentenced Wednesday to 60 months of probation. Edward McGee, 21, of the 1400 block…
Dallas convicts no longer shred confidential data
Jason Whitely reports the demise of a practice that never should have been: Dallas County’s little-known community service program which lets convicted criminals sort and then shred confidential documents and personal information has come to an end after News 8 questioned the practice. For more than a decade, parolees and probationers had been working off…