Martin Beckford and Steven Swinford report: The association says new legislation will give the Government, quangos and local authorities the power to access sensitive medical details without the patient’s permission. It fears that the change will lead to patients withholding information from doctors. The doctor’s union raised its concerns in a letter to Simon Burns,…
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Marijuana Privacy Laws
The Associated Press reports: Medical marijuana patients in Colorado are facing new rules concerning patient privacy, and some are getting a briefing from the state health department to understand how their patient records could be used. […] Marijuana advocates complain that looming regulations allowing law enforcement to access records at marijuana dispensaries violate the marijuana…
Hacking creates chaos for Snow Creek and its customers
Scott Canon reports: Snow Creek ski resort in Weston and many of its credit card customers appear to be victims of an attack by Internet hackers that first came to light Friday morning. By midday Friday the Platte County outfit had cut its on-site credit card processing system from the Internet and was warning customers…
AU: Security breach at Disability, Housing and Community Services ‘won’t result in identity theft’
ACT Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services Joy Burch says a security breach involving data from her department is unlikely to result in identity theft. In November last year, a department employee breached protocol and downloaded information onto a laptop to take home. The laptop was stolen during a home burglary. Ms Burch says…
(update) Belarus man pleads guilty to running identity theft site
Robert McMillan reports the latest development in a case previously mentioned on this blog: A 26-year-old Belarusian man has admitted to running an identity theft website designed to thwart the antifraud measures used by many banks. Until he was arrested in April 2010, Dmitry Naskovetz had been the mastermind behind CallService.biz, a website that helped…
(update) Ark. man accused of stealing 100,000 iPad e-mail addresses remains jailed after move to NJ
David Porter of the Associated Press reports: One of two men charged with stealing more than 100,000 e-mail addresses of Apple iPad users remained jailed Wednesday after making his first court appearance in New Jersey. Andrew Auernheimer, wearing handcuffs and a prison jumpsuit, chatted and joked with court personnel before the brief hearing in front…