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?
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…
UK: Care record opt out patients forced to justify decision 'in person'
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…
HK: Privacy Commissioner to investigate police data leakage
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.
UAE: Newspaper staff salaries leaked on internet
Salaries of Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National’s entire editorial staff have been posted on Wikileaks. Makt006 Business has more on the impact.
CA: Stolen police laptops had access to county data system
Laura Norton of The Press Democrat reports that four laptops with access to personal information on the department’s more than 1,000 employees were stolen from Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department police vehicles. While the laptops were in the police vehicles, they could access the county data system, although there is no indication that the thieves did…