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Author: Dissent

NHS 'scaring patients' over electronic records, premature babies' heightened sensitivity and phantom ministers stalking DH corridors

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Dissent

Steve Nowottny reports: The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail this morning cover the charge from privacy campaigners Big Brother Watch that Connecting for Health may be ‘scaring’ patients into agreeing to have a Summary Care Record. The lobby group accused Connecting for Health of overstating the risk to patients if they opt out of…

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Email error adds insult to injury

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Dissent

Karin Spaink’s blog summarizes a Dutch data leak: Many people who were duped by DSB Bank going broke, joined the foundation Hypotheekleed (’mortgage pains’). One of them suddenly started to receive e-mails containing the names, data and mortgage information of other members. Apparently, this happened because one of the employees of the foundation entered the…

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NZ: Hospital sorry for naming patients in reports

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dissent

Kate Newton reports: Hutt Hospital has apologised to two patients after accidentally including their names and some medical details in public meeting papers. The blunder was discovered after the papers for Tuesday’s Hutt Valley District Health Board meeting had been distributed and the meeting held. The patients’ names were published in a section on serious…

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Check cashing business throws out documents with Social Security numbers

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Dissent

Denae D’Arcy reports: A man made a disturbing find in North Knoxville Thursday evening. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of documents with personal information were dumped behind a shopping center. […] When a 6 News crew arrived at Fast Cash in a shopping center at 5100 Clinton Highway, they found documents scattered around a dumpster behind the…

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Visa Warns of Fraud Attack from Criminal Group

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Dissent

Brian Krebs reports: Visa is warning financial institutions that it has received reliable intelligence that an organized criminal group plans to attempt to move large amounts of fraudulent payments through a merchant account in Eastern Europe, possibly as soon as this weekend. In an alert sent to banks, card issuers and processors this week, Visa…

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NH: Patients will have chance to object to disclosure of medical records ordered by search warrant

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Dissent

FourthAmendment.com informs us of a case in New Hampshire where there will be greater privacy protection going forward  for medical records produced in response to a search warrant: Search warrant for medical records, in the future, requires the record holder to produce in camera to protect doctor-patient privilege so the patient can object to the…

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