Author: Dissent

ABC is reporting: Tapes containing the billing records of about 1.5 million people dating back 16 years that were stolen last month have been found. There have been no arrests made in connection with the theft. Previous coverage here, here, and here. Update: AP reports that 3 people are in custody and that law enforcement…

As an update to the case reported here yesterday, Tiara M. Ellis of the Dallas Morning News reports: A Duncanville woman who confessed to stealing the identities of 78 people was sentenced to 38 years in prison Monday in what authorities are calling one of the biggest identity-theft cases against a single person in the…

Bryn Nelson of MSNBC writes: A perceptive palm reader is helping one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. divine the true identities of its patients, ushering in a new era of biometric identity verification. The device, resembling a small black cube and manufactured by Tokyo-based Fujitsu Corp., uses a vascular pattern recognition system…

Nosy neighbours are bad enough, but this is worse than peering through the net curtains. Health Service Journal (June 26) reports that trusts do not punish staff caught snooping on patients’ records. Sian Thomas, the acting joint director of NHS Employers, told the NHS Confederation’s annual conference that there was evidence that trusts around the…

CBS in Dallas reports: A woman who stole thousands of dollars from North Texas nursing home patients and fast food customers and employees will face the longest identity theft sentence in Dallas County history. It is often said that authorities try to ‘send a message’ with the sentences they hand down. Monday Furnioes Parker received…

A laptop containing the personal details of several thousand patients has been stolen from the car of a senior hospital manager, who is now suspended. A patient told the BBC he received a letter saying the computer was taken on 18 June in Scotland from the car of a Colchester University Hospital manager. The unencrypted…