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New Breach Laws in Alaska and SC

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Dissent

On July 1, 2009, new laws will take effect in Alaska and South Carolina that will require entities that have experienced data security breaches involving personal information to notify affected individuals of the breaches. With these additions, a total of 44 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, will…

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Stolen CS Stars Hard Drive Still Missing

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Dissent

When CS Stars had the misfortune to have two separate data breaches on the same date but three years apart, it may have created some confusion for the good folks over at the Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection. Their web site summarized the newest incident by reporting that 722,000 individuals had data stolen in the…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: Abdurrahman Cetin was sentenced in federal court in Florida for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Evidence presented at trial showed that Cetin collected the personal and financial information of customers at a Toyota dealer in Long Island, NY, while working there as a salesman in 1999 and then used the…

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CDT paper on de-identification of personal health data

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Dissent

The Health Privacy Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology today released a major paper advocating the need for stronger standards for “de-identified” personal health information when used for medical research, to promote public health, or other specialized purposes. Stronger standards are needed to ensure that “de-identified” data cannot be re-identified in order to…

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UK: One in 5 Fraud Victims Unreimbursed

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Dissent

In the UK: Some one in four people surveyed by the consumer group [Which?] said they had been a victim of financial fraud – and while most had managed to reclaim the lost money from their bank or credit card provider, 20 per cent of victims said they had been left out of pocket. If…

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Former Mitsubishi UFJ Manager Arrested

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Dissent

Tokyo police Thursday arrested a former manager at a brokerage who was fired for stealing personal data on nearly 1.5 million customers and selling some of the information to mailing list companies. Hideaki Kubo, 44, a former acting manager at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co.’s systems department, has admitted to the allegations of theft and illegal…

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