The Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune and WGN News are reporting a breach involving records on nearly 3900 children held by Illinois childcare agency, the Maryville Academy. A notice on Maryville Academy‘s web site says: Notice Notice To All Current and Former Maryville Academy Residents and Clients Who Received Services Between 1992 and January 25, 2011: Maryville Academy has…
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OR: Credit card info stolen from Portland Center for the Performing Arts website
Marty Hughley reports: Credit card numbers and other personal information from several hundred Portland Center for the Performing Arts customers have been stolen due to a breach of website security, the center announced Friday. Ticket purchases for PCPA events, which are handled exclusively through Ticketmaster, were not affected. The problem was with the PCPA’s own…
Maryville Academy says sensitive data potentially compromised
The Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune and WGN News are reporting a breach involving records on nearly 3900 children held by Illinois childcare agency, the Maryville Academy. A notice on Maryville Academy‘s web site says: Notice Notice To All Current and Former Maryville Academy Residents and Clients Who Received Services Between 1992 and January 25,…
Adoption legislation could make access to family records easier
Scott Smith and Maureen Hayden report: Dan Zehner had to wait close to 50 years to meet his seven brothers and sisters. That fact, more than anything else, is his biggest regret as an adoptive child. Now Zehner, a Kokomo Fire Department inspector, is backing legislation to make it easier for other adoptive children to…
Texas Senate Passes Medical Privacy Bill
From the Courier-Gazette, some positive news from Texas that the Senate passed SB 622, a bill proposed by Senator Jane Nelson last month . “Medical records include highly sensitive information, and the misuse of this information can put patients at risk for severe financial and personal consequences,” Nelson said. “This bill protects patients from having…
A Nuanced Understanding of Privacy
Brock N. Meeks of CDT writes: A case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court has serious implications for how privacy protections are interpreted. But understanding the various risks posed in this case requires some careful unpacking of the ways in which “privacy” is—and is not—at issue here. CDT’s Health Privacy Project team has taken a look…