Cara Tuttle Bell of The Herald-Journal writes: With a clear disregard for the rights and health of women, the S.C. General Assembly is back in the business of legislating its view of morality with H-3245, a bill requiring a mandatory 24-hour delay if a woman receives an ultrasound before terminating a pregnancy. This delay is…
Author: Dissent
Do You Know Where Your Data Are?
Bruce Schneier had a pointed article in the Wall Street Journal this week: Do you know what your data did last night? Almost none of more than 27 million people who took the RealAge quiz realized that their personal health data was sold to drug companies, who in turned used that information for targeted e-mail…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As a follow-up to a breach covered on PogoWasRight.org last year, Anthony Wood, 45, a/k/a Anthony Bickerstaff, was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $67,292 in restitution for using stolen personal information of customers at Commerce Bank in Mount Laurel. Co-defendants Jennifer Mullner, a former loan services…
Is It Ethical to 'Google' Patients?
The May 1 issue of Psychiatric News has an interesting question in the Ethics Corner: Is It Ethical to ‘Google’ Patients? Q. We have learned that our psychiatry residents routinely “Google” their patients. On one recent occasion, the resident discovered that an inpatient was on a most-wanted list in another state for arson despite having…
UK: Police to destroy DNA profiles of 800,000 innocent people
Jamie Doward reports: DNA profiles of almost a million innocent people are to be destroyed as part of a major overhaul of the police national database. They include people who have been arrested and never charged, and those taken to court but found not guilty. Civil rights groups gave a cautious welcome to the proposals…
4 more employees gone after sneaking into octuplets’ files
Sarah Tully of The Orange County Register reports: Four more hospital employees this week were forced out of their jobs for sneaking into the octuplets’ mother’s private medical records, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed today. Previously, another 15 employees were terminated and eight were disciplined for improperly looking at mother Nadya Suleman’s documents at Kaiser Permanente…