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Author: Dissent

Florida couple fed up over medical fax flap

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Dissent

Laura Kadechka reports on a Tampa couple who have been received misdirected faxes containing pharmacy and medical information for over two years, despite their having contacted the pharmacies and medical clinics to tell them of the error. The doctor who had had their phone number had changed it two years ago. Not wholly surprising, when…

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Pointer: State Laws Require Secure Personal Data

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

Nick Akerman and Melissa J. Krasnow have an article in The National Law Journal: Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada recently enacted laws requiring businesses to institute certain compliance measures to secure personal information that can be used to perpetrate identity theft. The Massachusetts law applies to a business located anywhere in the United States that stores…

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Binghamton University’s “security” for student records?

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

Robert Glass of WHRW News reports on a breach waiting to happen: In a titanic breach of security, Binghamton University kept payment information for every student, possibly dating back at least ten years in a storage area next to one of the most trafficked lecture halls on campus, behind a door that was not only…

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UK: Care record opt out patients forced to justify decision 'in person'

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

Steve Nowottny reports: NHS managers have told thousands of patients they will only be allowed to opt out of having a Summary Care Record if they come and explain their reasons in person, Pulse can reveal. More than 500 patients at an early adopter site in Birmingham have already been forced to explain face-to-face why…

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HK: Privacy Commissioner to investigate police data leakage

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

As a follow-up to what appears to be one toomany file-sharing leaks, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data  has ordered an investigation.

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UAE: Newspaper staff salaries leaked on internet

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Dissent

Salaries of Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National’s entire editorial staff have been posted on Wikileaks. Makt006 Business has more on the impact.

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