Pamela Cowan reports: It isn’t the first time confidential patient information has ended up in the wrong hands via e-mail — but Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says safeguards can be low-tech and simple. He was commenting after the office of his federal counterpart launched an investigation into how a Weyburn woman received a detailed and confidential…
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Data Privacy Day 2010
Today is Data Privacy Day. I’ve covered a number of events going on over on PogoWasRight.org, but I thought I would use today to mention an aspect of PHI privacy that I haven’t really blogged about here before: emailing your doctor. As a healthcare provider, I understand that my patients like the convenience of being…
Apple Daily: Breach of professional ethics
Y. L. Kao reports: A medical doctor in Taichung recently pubished an article that detailed information about a male-to-female sex reassignment surgical operation performed on Taiwan entertainer Li Ching. The doctor, who mentioned Li’s name in the article in a medical association journal, has been strongly criticized for an infringement of patient privacy. Divulging personal…
IE Windows vuln coughs up local files
Dan Goodin reports: If you use any version of Internet Explorer to surf Twitter or other Web 2.0 sites, Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina can probably read the entire contents of your primary hard drive. The security consultant at Core Security said his attack works by clicking on a single link that exploits a chain of…
Private data of 8,600 Ont. teachers compromised
Laptops containing sensitive records belonging to thousands of Ontario teachers have been stolen, CBC News has learned. The three laptops contained names, addresses, birth dates and social insurance numbers of some 8,600 teachers, most of whom work at elementary schools for the Toronto District School Board. The computers were stolen from the Waterloo, Ont., offices…
Seattle court worker charged with id theft
Levi Pulkklinen reports more on a story previously mentioned on this blog: A week after her alleged conspirators were charged, federal prosecutors have a Seattle Municipal Court employee with bank fraud and identity theft. […] Searching the vehicle, investigators found a number of “profiles” bearing Seattle Municipal Court customers’ names and credit-card numbers, according to…