In response to a Freedom of Information request, Maryland Attorney General’s Office sent me the 14 breach reports they received in March of this year. Of the 14, six were never previously reported on this site and four others gave us breach reports for incidents that we were aware of but had few details for:…
Author: Dissent
InPsych app is a privacy threat – psychologist
Psychologist John Grohol of Psych Central posts this warning on his site: I’m off to attend the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (APA) in San Diego today, but before I go, I do have two APA-related news items to post. The first is about the APA’s social networking application it deployed for this…
CO: Waitress charged with felony possession of skimmer
Making possession of tools a felony opens up new prosecutorial possibilities: A Greeley waitress from China, arrested last week for allegedly “skimming” customers’ credit cards, has been charged with a felony — possession of identity theft tools. Yu Lin, 22, was arrested last week and released on $5,000 bond. She was arrested after the owners…
OCR Issues Proposed Modifications to HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Guest commentary from Daniel F. Gottlieb, Bernadette M. Broccolo, Jennifer S. Geetter, Jerry Tichner, Jeanna Palmer Gunville, Sarah S. Nelson, Edward G. Zacharias and Stephen W. Bernstein, attorneys in the Health Industry Advisory Practice Group of global law firm McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP [Editor’s note: Due to its length, this guest commentary will be…
Senators demand Lockerbie bomber's medical records
From a news story in the Telegraph: US senators have called on the Scottish government to disclose the Lockerbie bomber’s full medical records in an attempt to understand why he was released early. In a letter to First Minister Alex Salmond they asked for the release of all medical documentation for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al…
Pediatric cancer patients’ identities used as part of tax fraud operation
Joe Ryan reports that 29 year-old Steven Nelson of the Bronx pleaded not guilty in a Newark court today and remains free on bail. Nelson had been indicted by a federal grand jury in July on a tax refund scheme that not only involved ID theft, but used the identities of pediatric cancer patients to…