Erin Prah reports: According to Liz Latt and Beth Fortune in Public Affairs, a professor’s desktop computer, containing the names and social security numbers of 7,174 current and former students, was stolen some time during the weekend of Feb. 6. Letters were sent on March 10 and 11 to the 7,171 current and former students,…
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Patient Loses Privacy Claim Against Doctor
Jeff Gorman reports: A doctor did not violate a patient’s privacy by telling her case workers that she needed to stop taking prescription drugs, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled. Teresa Gard suffered a back injury on the job and sought treatment from Dr. Dennis Harris. However, Harris stopped seeing Gard after watching a surveillance…
UK To Acquire Stolen Private Banking Data Of HSBC In Switzerland
Tom Burroughes reports: The UK government is to acquire the Swiss bank account details of up to 6,600 wealthy UK citizens suspected of evading tax after information was stolen from HSBC’s private bank in Switzerland by a software engineer, the Sunday Times (of London) reported. The report comes shortly after it was reported that the…
UK: Outrage as hospital loses 2,000 records
Confidential health records belonging to 2,000 physiotherapy patients have been lost. Security is expected to be tightened at the Haywood Hospital in Burslem after the sensitive documents vanished. The Haywood Hospital, pictured below, owned and managed by NHS Stoke-on-Trent, provides rehabilitation, podiatry and other therapy services. The missing records relate to patients treated in or…
Prescriptions found on street spark probe
Ontario’s privacy commissioner is investigating after thousands of medical prescriptions were found blowing around on a street in Gatineau last week. The prescriptions date from 1994, and they contained personal information about patients who used to be clients of what used to be Nelson Drugs on Main Street in Old Ottawa East. The prescriptions ended…
Tax mix-up riles woman
Michelle Ruby reports from Canada: Darlene Clifford is concerned about her financial privacy after she received someone else’s RRSP tax receipt. The Brantford woman received her tax receipt, issued by Scotia Trust, in the mail last week. The top section of the three-part form contained her correct personal information. The middle and lower parts of…