Brian Bowling reports: The Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is trying to use a technical violation of its leave policy to punish an employee who reported a violation of the federal health record privacy law, a union official said. “That’s about it in a nutshell,” said Keith Watson, president of American Federation of Government Employees…
Author: Dissent
Ie: Clergy no longer given hospital admission lists
Eoghan MacConnell reports: Hospital admission lists are no longer being made available to members of the clergy seeking to check if their parishioners are in hospital. The long-standing practice of allowing priests to check admissions has been stopped by recent data protection legislation. “Generally the priests regret that the list isn’t available for practical reasons,”…
It: Govt's proposal put female patients' privacy at risk
From AGI: The PD warned that, with an amendment to the Milleproroghe decree, the government is putting women’s privacy at risk. “With an amendment to the Milleproroghe decree, the government is launching an attack on women’s privacy, effectively putting it at risk. An article proposed by the government and voted yesterday by the Senate would…
Former L.A. County social worker pleads guilty in identity theft
This is a follow-up to a case previously reported on this blog but adds more details about the number of victims and crime. A former employee with the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services pleaded guilty this past week to federal charges and admitted that he filed federal tax returns in the names of…
(update) NC: U.B.E. breach victims total continues to climb
Jackie Drake reports: Greenville Police are handling at least 100 complaints so far from East Carolina University students who say they lost money after their accounts were compromised in a recent security breach at the University Book Exchange. The breach is believed to have occurred between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25 and the case is…
Bank of America website exposes customer accounts, data
Ray Wert reports on Jalopnik that Bank of America’s online banking system experienced a security breach or glitch that enabled logged in users to see other people’s accounts: Someone very close to me called moments ago and told me that when she logged into her Bank of America account earlier this evening she saw, rather…