Kid #1 came in last night and threw the letter down on my desk in disgust. For the second time since June, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh had notified him that his debit card was being replaced due to a breach and that he would have to personally come in to the bank to activate…
Author: Dissent
Huge bank card scam hits Bermuda
How curious…. Canadian Tire had told me that 2% of their customers’s cards had been misused as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now another non-US entity mentions 2%. Have we gotten reports from any UK banks yet? Hundreds of debit and credit card customers in Bermuda have been dragged into one of…
Confidential LAPD misconduct files mistakenly posted on Internet
Joel Rubin reports: The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct. The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks…
Consumer Advocate’s View of HIT in Stimulus Bill
Josh Seidman reports: The following is a guest post from Eva Powell, MSW, CPHQ, Diretor, HIT Project, National Partnership for Women & Families. In light of all the discussion about the Economic Recovery Plan and the privacy provisions in the HIT Title, I thought it might be helpful to provide a consumer advocate’s view. The…
Google, IBM team to take health records from PDA to e-health database
Sharon Gaudin reports: Google Inc., IBM and the Continua Health Alliance this week unveiled jointly developed software designed to stream patient information from a doctor’s mobile device to online data stores. The two tech giants worked with the Beaverton, Ore.-based health care provider to extend the value of Google‘s Google Health service and other online…
UnitedHealth Group To Issue Machine-Readable Patient ID Cards
This week, UnitedHealth Group announced that it will issue by the end of 2009 nearly 25 million machine-readable patient identification cards, Modern Healthcare reports. The patient ID cards will provide patient benefit-eligibility information, access to patients’ personal health records and real-time claim adjudication. The cards will comply with national standards established by the federal Workgroup…