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Author: Dissent

Reports Pour in under California's New Privacy Laws

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dissent

Reports of health record breach violations have been pouring into the California Department of Public Health since the state began requiring healthcare entities to report all incidents of unauthorized record access. More than 800 reports have been filed since the law took effect January 1, according to Kathleen Billingsley, RN, deputy director of the California…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: As a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site, Atin and Iris Singh have been sentenced to two years in state prison for using a skimmer and stealing customer data from Roti’s Bistro and using it for fraudulent purposes. There were reportedly about 60 victims. More. Jason Lennon Bell,…

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Former AmEx employee stole account numbers

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dissent

Two Phoenix men are accused of stealing thousands of American Express card numbers and swindling more than a million dollars from customers. Timothy Curley, of Phoenix, is at the center of the Secret Service investigation. […] Police discovered during their investigation that Curley had not only worked as a computer database analyst for American Express,…

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The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dissent

Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they’ll try to take over your brain. In the past year, researchers have developed technology that makes it possible to use thoughts to operate a computer, maneuver a wheelchair, or even use Twitter — all without lifting a finger. But as neural…

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BOTSWANA: Court rules on privacy violation

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dissent

In the first case of its kind in Botswana, a woman has successfully sued another woman for publicly revealing her HIV status. The High Court in Lobatse, a city in the southeast, has ruled that Sadi Nokane pay Obakeng Madubela US$1,000 in damages for violating Madubela’s right to privacy. Around 55 percent of the population…

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UK data breach incidents on the rise

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Dissent

Seven in ten UK organisations experienced a data breach incident over the last year, up from 60 per cent in the previous year. The third edition of an annual survey by the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by PGP, also found that 12 per cent of 615 public and private sector organisations probed were hit by five…

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