A shocked mum said she should have been told her baby’s DNA will be kept on a database for life. Ana Humberstone, 36, claims she was unaware the DNA of her two-year-old daughter Jasmine would be stored with thousands of other babies from Wakefield on NHS records in Leeds. […] Parents and civil liberties groups…
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Patient Consent: Much To Be Done
Howard Anderson writes: Detailed patient consent recommendations that a privacy and security “tiger team” recently completed are just a starting point toward giving patients far more control over their healthcare information, the co-chair of the team acknowledges. In an interview (complete transcript below), attorney Deven McGraw says the recommendations, which federal regulators are now considering for…
WI: Church gets $84,000 back in stolen funds
Annysa Johnson reports: Federal authorities continue to investigate a “cyber theft” of $121,000 from a prominent Catholic church in Brookfield that has all the markings of a sophisticated Internet crime operation. St. John Vianney learned from its commercial banker last month that blocks of money had been withdrawn from one of its accounts through a…
The PCI Lessons From Google’s Employee Data Breach
Walter Conway writes: When Google this month fired a programmer for using the search giant’s database to investigate an intriguing teenager, it showed that even the most sophisticated and respected technology brands can have a trusted employee go rogue. This lesson should not be lost on retail executives, who may rely on several third-party service…
MI: Accounting firm client records dumped in trash
Piles of people’s personal information from a local accounting firm has been tossed into a garbage can for anyone to find. The documents were discovered in the trash outside the Comprehensive Accounting firm on 8 Mile and Farmington roads in Farmington Hills. [….] Local 4 found thousands of client files in the trash that included…
Za: Five appear in court over card skimming
Two foreign nationals and three South African women appeared briefly in the East London Magistrate’s Court yesterday to make a formal bail application after they were arrested for alleged credit card skimming. Simeon Toshen from Bulgaria and Anthony Uchena from Nigeria appeared alongside co-accused Rachel Harden and Lungiswa Tayati – both from Johannesburg – and…