Suellen Hinde reports: A person’s medical information can now be revealed to blood relatives – but not their spouse – without their consent. Doctors can tell a patient’s relatives they have a chance of developing a life-threatening or serious disease because they carry the same genes. New guidelines, released by the National Health and Medical…
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Briton faces fraud charges over international debit card scam
Sophie Tedmanson of Times Online has more on the McDonald’s EFTPOS skimming scam in Australia, identifying the two men arrested as British national Elangovan Ganeshamoorthy and Canadian national Rugshanth Selvarajah: The men are alleged to have gone to more than 20 McDonald’s restaurants in the Perth metropolitan area, swapping the pin keypads on EFTPOS (Switch)…
Dentist’s Account Missing Nearly $400K
There have been some bizarre happenings down in St. John’s County, Florida this month. First Dr. Robert Thousand, an oral surgeon, reported that his phone lines were being tied up by a barrage of incoming 900-phone sex calls. Then another oral surgeon in the area, Dr. Bradley Cherry, reported the same problem with the phone…
Ex-Marana police officer facing felony charges
Stephen Ceasar reports: A former Marana Police Officer has been indicted on charges of computer tampering and identity theft. Calvin Ingram, 39, is facing charges of using police databases for non-law enforcement purposes and sharing the information with non-law enforcement people, an Arizona Attorney General Office news release said. Officials say he used the databases…
Ca: Commissioner Cavoukian expects health sector to encrypt all health information on mobile devices: Nothing short of this is acceptable
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, today directed the province’s health sector not remove from their premises any personal health information on mobile devices – unless this very sensitive information is encrypted, as required in a health order issued in 2007. This follows the loss last week of a USB key containing the…
Health Net disputes CT AG's statement
Emily Berry reports that Health Net has responded to statements by the Attorney General of Connecticut by claiming that there is no proof that a breach earlier this year was due to theft: Citing a report by Kroll, a security firm Health Net hired to investigate, Blumenthal said in a Dec. 7 announcement that Health…