Lui Straccia reports: A sixteen-year-old is an outcast from her devout Catholic family who have branded her a ‘murderer’ after a nurse allegedly broke medical confidentiality and told them about her secret abortion. The girl lives in Luton but has been kicked out of home by her strictly religious mother, who was born and raised…
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UCSF patient records possibly compromised
Victoria Colliver reports: Medical records for about 4,400 UCSF patients are at risk after thieves stole a laptop from a medical school employee in November, UCSF officials said today. The laptop, which was stolen on or about Nov. 30, was found in Southern California on Jan. 8. There is no indication that unauthorized access to…
FL: Judge: Lawyers can subpoena abortion info
UPI reports: Lawyers for a multimillionaire philanthropist can seek abortion records of women suing him for sexually molesting them, a Florida judge has ruled. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele told Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers Wednesday there are limits on their ability to subpoena abortion records, The Palm Beach Post reported. They can only do…
FL: Medical files in Port St. Lucie trash bin could have led to ID fraud, police say
Will Greenlee reports: Police on Tuesday turned up medical files containing information that could be used to commit identity theft in a trash bin near University Medical Clinics, a police spokesman said Wednesday. Police determined the files, which contained information including patient names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers and addresses, had been discarded from University…
A Federal Court Dismisses a Suit Based on a Threat of Identity Theft and an Extortion Letter
Anita Ramasastry has a commentary on a recent federal court decision in a lawsuit against Express Scripts. She writes, in part: Readers may wonder, Why didn’t the extortion letter make a difference in the Amburgy v. Express Scripts case? After all, didn’t the letter substantially strengthen the risk that a breach would occur? Perhaps –…
(update) Missing National Archives hard drive contained more data than previously estimated
The National Archives breach involving White House staff and visitors seems to be one of those breaches where after almost a year, estimates of number of people affected are still emerging and increasing. An article on Roll Call indicates that personal information on 250,000 Clinton administration staff and White House visitors sent to the National…