Alex Lewis reports: Security measures to protect people whose personal details were on a laptop stolen from the district council offices are soon to lapse, an opposition councillor has warned. After a laptop containing names and addresses of thousands of St Albans postal voters went missing in October last year, the council registered the details…
Author: Dissent
UK: Patients' details lost on train by Hertfordshire doctor (updated)
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has been found in breach of data protection after a doctor lost a memory stick on a train. The junior doctor had recorded details of patients’ conditions and medication on the device and was meant to hand it over to the next doctor on shift. But the doctor forgot…
Suspended Bangalore techie allegedly stole company data (updated)
NOTE: An entry that was posted in May and updated later that month was removed on July 2, 2011 after I was notified that the post contained material that had been removed by the original source of the entry, NDTV. Since NDTV has withdrawn all of their content and their update, I have decided to…
Library of Parliament Legislative Summary of Amendments to Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
The Library of Parliament recently published a legislative summary of Bill C-29: An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). […] “Bill C-29 adds several new definitions to PIPEDA. It preserves the existing definition of personal information as ‘information about an identifiable individual,’ but removes the wording excluding the names and coordinates…
The Death of Medical Privacy
Arie Friedman, MD writes: As I have read through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA, aka ObamaCare), I have been repeatedly struck by the disregard the law has for patient privacy. Time and time again, the PPACA authorizes the federal government to obtain information about patients directly from their health care…
FGCU admissions rule allows for rejection based on student’s health
Leslie Williams Hale reports: At the intersection of health privacy laws and student privacy laws in Florida stand the students themselves. Before a student in Florida can sign up for classes, he or she must provide a medical history to the state university. That medical history is often a simple list of required vaccinations. However…