Patients could amend their own medical records and leave comments on symptoms, medication and treatment, under radical plans unveiled by the Conservatives today. In a move which could be dubbed “Wiki-health”, a Tory government under David Cameron will allow people to access online health records, which are currently restricted. Patients would be prevented from changing…
Author: Dissent
And you thought a prescription was private
More than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and promotions started after she bought fertility drugs at a pharmacy in San Diego. […] Like many other people, Ms. Krinsk thought that her prescription information was private. But…
Major credit card racket busted, 6 held
Panaji police busted an international credit card fraud involving cloning of cards and using them to gamble in offshore casinos in Goa on Friday. Police say they cracked the racket after arresting six persons from Mumbai and suspect that those arrested may allegedly be part of a group which either collected or hacked legitimate credit…
Social Security numbers visible on Iowa site
A link to a state Web site was shut down Friday after the discovery that the Social Security numbers of hundreds of Iowa’s top business officials and company board members were accessible by the public. The numbers – more than 2,000 in total – appeared primarily in corporation reports made to the Iowa secretary of…
Inquiry after passports found in punchbag
The Home Office has launched an “urgent investigation” after two brothers found thousands of scraps of passports, chequebooks and prescription pads in a punchbag [Note: in the U.S., punching bag]. Simon and Richard Coe discovered personal data, including signatures and photos, torn up into thousands of small pieces. Much of the personal information contained in…
Stolen laptop contained playgroup’s information
Children’s details stored on a Lincoln play group’s laptop are still missing after the console was stolen. Information about youngsters who attend Abbey Play Group, based at Croft Street Community Centre off Monks Road, was on the computer, a court heard. Thief Darren Philip David Jude, 21, stole the laptop from his girlfriend’s home. He…