Warwick Ashford reports: The single most important change required in UK data protection regulation is to bring the law into line with European legislation, says Stewart Room, partner at law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse. Section 13 of the UK Data Protection Act (DPA) is totally out of kilter with the EU directive on personal data,…
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(UPDATE) Over 21,000 affected by DentaQuest breach in March still have not been notified
Cross-posted from phiprivacy.net: From the what-took-so-long dept: On May 11, this site reported that the New Mexico Human Services Department had just revealed that a laptop theft that occurred on March 20 affected about 9,600 people. The laptop was stolen from the car of an employee of West Monroe Partners, a subcontractor for DentaQuest, the…
MO: Stacks of medical records found in dumpster outside Florissant doctor’s office
From KMOV: A dumpster outside a St. John’s doctor’s office, listed as Dr. David Brown’s, was wide open and filled with patient folders and other medical records. […] Statement from Dr. David Brown: In an effort to dispose of some files that were many years old, I made a mistake by using improper procedures for…
NY: Revenge of (fired) nerd
Jamie Schram reports on a case where no patient data is reported to have been compromised, but easily could have been because it was accessible: Never sack the tech guy — he knows your IP address. That’s the lesson a Manhattan hospital learned the hard way after a disgruntled computer geek was busted for allegedly…
Swiss parliament reject giving UBS client data to US news
Swiss lawmakers yesterday took upon themselves to safeguard the citadel of the country’s secretive banking system as they rejected a deal in parliament to hand over 4,450 names of wealthy Americans who held secret offshore accounts with Swiss bank UBS. Switzerland’s lower house rejected a bill to approve the settlement arrived at between the governments…
Security breach exposes Tufts alumni records (UPDATE)
Thousands of Tufts University alumni have received letters over the past few days warning about a computer security breach that may have left their social security numbers and other personal information exposed. According to school officials, several computers were exposed to an unknown virus or malicious software program. The computers contained old student files and…