Residents of the Claudelands area of Hamilton East are being urged to contact Waikato Hospital if they find any medical referral letters in their rubbish. Waikato District Health Board has launched an investigation into how the letters ended up in rubbish, due for collection near the Claudelands Bridge, on Christmas Eve. Health Waikato chief operating…
Author: Dissent
Computer equipment stolen from Dallas Police squad cars
I’m having one of those Yogi Berra “deja vu all over again” moments while reading this news report by Jon Nielsen in the Dallas Morning News: About $66,000 worth of computer equipment has been stolen from 10 decommissioned Dallas police squad cars, authorities said Thursday. The cars, all damaged in accidents, had been in the wrecking…
(follow-up) Ca: Defence confirms breach of medical information of Forces personnel
Alison Auld of The Canadian Press provides an update to a breach previously mentioned on this blog: Defence officials are reviewing the medical records of several Forces personnel after an investigation showed their personal health information was mistakenly placed in a veteran’s military medical file. Maj. Cindy Tessier said the file belonging to navy veteran Wayne…
(follow-up) Ca: Defence confirms breach of medical information of Forces personnel
Alison Auld of The Canadian Press provides an update to a breach previously mentioned on this blog: Defence officials are reviewing the medical records of several Forces personnel after an investigation showed their personal health information was mistakenly placed in a veteran’s military medical file. Maj. Cindy Tessier said the file belonging to navy veteran…
An Arizona city proposal would treat all patients like potential criminals
Sonu Munshi reports: Peoria could become the first Arizona city to require fingerprinting at pharmacies when picking up prescriptions for commonly abused drugs in an effort to curb an escalating number of fraud cases. Peoria law-enforcement officials this month proposed an ordinance that would require anyone filling prescriptions for drugs such as OxyContin and Percocet…
(update) JP: MPD admits antiterror data leak
Japan has had a number of embarrassing data breaches involving the Winny file-sharing program. Will this turn out to be another one? The Metropolitan Police Department on Friday effectively admitted that some of its internal documents on investigations into international terrorism were leaked onto the Internet in late October. […] The MPD has been questioning…