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Author: Dissent

UK: Personal data stolen with Powys LHB laptop

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Dissent

More on the Trulife laptop theft from 2008 that was never reported until mid-2009: A computer containing personal information about patients who have visited Powys teaching Local Health Board’s (tLHB) orthotics department has been stolen. Remarkably this incident happened in February 2008 but the third party in charge of the laptop only informed Powys tLHB…

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Mass. Health Bill Would Allow Warrantless Arrests, Quarantines

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Dissent

Alex Newman writes: A pandemic and disaster preparation bill (S. 2028) passed unanimously by the Massachusetts Senate earlier this year is receiving wide-spread criticism as citizens mobilize to oppose its passage in the commonwealth’s House of Representatives. “Under this bill, Massachusetts becomes a medical police state. There is no debating it,” wrote Natural News editor…

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Lifelock loses another round in court

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Dissent

Experian has issued a press release indicating that a federal court in California has denied LifeLock’s request to reconsider a ruling which found that LifeLock’s practice of setting 90-day fraud alerts on Experian and other credit bureaus was unlawful: Experian® today announced that a federal court in California denied a motion by LifeLock Inc. to…

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Wigan Council improves security after details on most school children are stolen

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Dissent

From the UK Information Commissioner’s Office: Wigan Council has agreed to take action to comply with the Data Protection Act after the theft of a laptop computer containing personal information relating to approximately 43,000 children and young people. The laptop included personal details on most children and young people in Wigan’s schools. The information had…

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Court allows suit against bank for lax security (updated)

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Dissent

Jaikumar Vijayan of Computerworld reports: A couple whose bank account was breached can sue their bank for its alleged failure to implement the latest security measures designed to prevent such compromises. In a ruling issued last month, Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer, of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, denied a request by Citizens…

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U. Vermont announces credit card breach

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Dissent

Unversity of Vermont recently discovered that the security of up to 242 university-funded credit cards has been compromised. Ann Naylor of UVM Procurement services said in a statement that UVM is unaware of how the breach occured. UVM discovered the issue when they were notified by their bank. They were mailed a list of the…

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