From the good folks over at World Privacy Forum: The Patient’s Guide to HIPAA is the first comprehensive guide to medical privacy written expressly for patients with a practical eye as to how to use the law to protect privacy. It is a major privacy resource for patients, written directly and without legalese. The Patient’s…
Author: Dissent
Georgia Legislature goes after your right to privacy
Jason Pye writes: At some point today, the Georgia Senate will consider HB 614, the “Georgia Prescription Monitoring Program Act,” which would establish a state surveillance system for the monitoring of prescribing and dispensing of certain medications (Schedules II, III, IV, or V). Included in the database would be most pain relievers, anxiety medications, sleep…
On the menu: stealing your details
Freeman Klopott reports: Wait staff at several Washington-area high-end restaurants stole credit card numbers from customers and ran up a $750,000 tab at stores like Gucci and Barney’s of New York, federal authorities said in court documents. […] The customers victimized at the District’s M&S Grill, 701 Restaurant, Clyde’s of Gallery Place and Bowie’s Carrabba’s…
UK: Patients’ GP notes found in car
Shaun Lowthorpe reports that medical notes about 37 terminally ill patients were found abandoned in a used car owned by Philip Smith, a GP at the Beccles Medical Centre. NHS Yarmouth and Waveney is now investigating.
Sullivan Nicolaides breach worse than originally reported
As a follow-up to a breach reported on the companion site, databreaches.net, last week, a reader sends a link to a second article by Anna Caldwell and David Earley that shows how the breach was more extensive than originally reported and how despite the fact that Sullivan Nicolaides removed the files from their site, copies…
NY: Box delivered to Sun office leads to investigation
Grant Parpan of the North Shore Sun reports: A cardboard box filled with records from a Holbrook social worker’s office — including Social Security and bank account numbers, addresses and phone numbers of clients — was delivered to The North Shore Sun last week by a town worker who said he found it lying on…