Former presidential candidate Bob Barr writes: My home state of Georgia may soon join those states that have enacted “Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs,†thereby making individual citizen’s prescription records subject to easier state and federal government snooping. Already nearly three dozen states have such programs in place, a primary reason for which is to receive…
Author: Dissent
Firm Faulted For Giving Email Addys To Pharma
Les Luchter reports: The revelation that a company that enticed people to take a “Real Age” test sent emails based on their results on behalf of pharmaceutical companies sparked a range of reaction on Thursday. The New York Times reported that nine million people who have taken the Web-based health survey and agreed to free…
Symantec Data Leak Remains Under Investigation (updated)
Brian Prince of eWeek reports: Law enforcement is still investigating how credit card information belonging to a handful of Symantec customers from the United Kingdom fell into the hands of an identity theft ring. Though speculation has focused on an employee of e4e, a call center in India, a spokesman for Symantec said its own…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Regina Tolliver, formerly employed by the Citizens Bank branch in King of Prussia, was convicted on all counts alleging that she stole the information of seven customers. She had been indicted (pdf) in January 2008. More. Richard J. Berger faces five years in prison for accessing sensitive customer information for SunLife…
Hancock Fabric employee payroll records found in trash
WAFF 48 staff reports that employee payroll data for Hancock Fabrics in Huntsville Alabama was found dumped in the trash behind the business. The payroll records, which go back to 2005, contained social security numbers, pay rates, and first and last names. The company says that the records were improperly disposed of in error.
Maryland’s federal court leaks personal info on web (update 1)
An error by the federal court in Maryland resulted in medical information being accessible on the web for about two weeks. Not much info was provided by WMDT, and it’s not clear why medical information would have been included in what sounds like warrants on 226 people that got publicly shared, but 42 SSN were…