Gregg Keizer reports: People using the Firesheep add-on may be breaking federal wiretapping laws, legal experts said today. Or maybe not. “I honestly don’t know the answer,” said Phil Malone, a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School as well as the director of the school’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet…
Author: Dissent
AU: How Hep C doctor ruined our lives
There’s a case in Australia that raises a slew of privacy, confidentiality, and health records security issues because dozens of women allege that a doctor who performed their abortions gave them Hepatitis C. Had this occurred during another kind of surgery, women would probably feel more comfortable coming forward to identify themselves as having been…
Ca: New legislation to beef up privacy protocols for medical information
Adam Bowie reports: Officials with the Horizon Health Network say new health legislation will provide better guidance for medical professionals about how they should record, access and use a patient’s personal medical information. The Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act was proclaimed in New Brunswick on Sept. 1 – a piece of legislation that…
IE: Records lost at Vincent’s Hospital
Kieron Wood: A computer back-up containing patient records has gone missing from St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin. Notices have been posted at the hospital asking if anyone has seen the Western Digital external hard drive. A spokesman for St Vincent’s said that on October 21, the hospital informed the Data Protection Office of the…
(update) Telstra: privacy breach mail-out was our fault, not printer’s
Daniel Fitzgerald reports: Telstra has said an internal error – not the printer, SEMA – was behind the privacy breach bungle that last week saw around 220,000 letters delivered to wrong addresses. It is understood that SEMA, which handled the printing and mailing of the letter discussing upcoming fixed line price changes, was supplied with…
Andres Correa of Elizabeth given 3 years in prison for identity theft and credit card fraud
A Union County man was sentenced to three years in state prison Friday for his role in a scheme to steal people’s identities and engage in credit card fraud. Andres A. Correa, 30, of Elizabeth, who is also known as Frank Perec, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Robert J. Mega in Union Elizabeth, according…