Wayne Josel and Cindy Lo write: As discussed in our recent webinar “Whose Data Is It Anyway: Privacy in the De-Centralized Digital World”, currently there is no comprehensive federal statutory scheme to govern the protection of privacy. While lawmakers and agencies at the federal level continue to grapple with developing useful legislation to address privacy…
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Proposed Virginia law would expand breach notification to breaches involving medical information
Seen in an article on recently introduced state bills: Lawmakers in Virginia introduced legislation in January of this year to expand notification requirements following a breach of security with respect to medical information. While under current Virginia law, the requirement to provide notice only applies to organizations, corporations or agencies “supported wholly or principally by public…
Union: Iowa hospital worker denies records breach
The Associated Press reports: One of three University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics workers being fired for allegedly breaching the medical records of injured football players is a 26-year employee who says she did nothing wrong, a union president said Monday. The woman has a spotless disciplinary record during her employment at UIHC and has…
Anonymous Hacks into Security Firm’s Network and Steals Confidential Data
Another hactivist incident. Lucian Constantin reports: Members of the Anonymous collective have broken into the network of a security firm and exposed its internal communications, after it claimed to know the identity of the group’s founders. Last week, Aaron Barr, the head of an information security firm called HBGary Federal, told the Financial Times that…
Follow-up to RBS Breach: Russian hacker admits guilt in $10 million cyber theft x
Reuters reports: A Russian man has pleaded guilty in court to stealing $10 million from former Royal Bank of Scotland division World Pay in 2008 by hacking into accounts, RIA News reported on Monday. Investigators said 27-year-old Yevgeny Anikin was a member of an international hacking ring that copied client account information and boosted the…
'Gehrig bill' would free Yankee star's medical data for ALS-concussion probe
I’ve blogged a number of times about the privacy rights of the dead and efforts to limit such rights, including on the federal level. Here’s another news story about one very specific bill being proposed in Minnesota: David Brauer reports: State Rep. Phyllis Kahn makes no bones about it: She wants the Mayo Clinic to…