Matt Donmall reports: A Swedish professor has failed in his European Court of Human Rights challenge to his conviction for disobeying a court order to hand over sensitive information in medical research, despite having promised the participants that the information would be for his use alone. As reported in a past blog, the fact of their…
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UK: NHS records viewed in India – SBS answers my questions
Tony Collins writes: NHS Shared Business Services – a joint venture between the Department of Health and Steria – does not have to publish any detail on what NHS information is viewed in India or what data fields can be viewed. Steria employs 5,000 in India some of whom work on NHS records. It says…
GA: Lawmakers may monitor use of medications
Charles Oliver reports: The General Assembly may be taking a look in your medicine chest. Rep. Tom Weldon, R-Ringgold, said Thursday he will introduce legislation this year to battle “pill mills.” “We don’t have a searchable database that sheriffs and law enforcement can go in and see who has been buying meth products and who…
Article: Relative Futility: Limits to Genetic Privacy Protection Because of the Inability to Prevent Disclosure of Genetic Information by Relatives
Relative Futility: Limits to Genetic Privacy Protection Because of the Inability to Prevent Disclosure of Genetic Information by Relatives Trevor Woodage Minnesota Law Review, December 2010, Volume 95, No. 2 Abstract: The Note considers possible limits to reasonable expectations of genetic privacy given that people share their DNA sequences with their relatives. Most scholars and…
ICO statement on investigation into 2006 FIFA World Cup ticket information disclosure
Mick Gorrill, Head of Enforcement at the ICO, said: “In September 2010, the ICO opened an investigation into allegations that a database containing the personal information of 250,000 individuals who had purchased tickets for football matches in the 2006 FIFA World Cup competition in Germany, had been unlawfully sold on the black market. This followed…
(Update) Hacker who planned to attack 74,000 computers worldwide gets suspended sentence
An Adelaide computer hacker who offered software that could capture people’s bank details for sale on an “internet criminal bazaar” has received a suspended jail term. Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, used the internet to teach himself the necessary hacking and programming skills to attack 2370 computers world wide in 2009. He also modified and sold…