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UK: NHS Tayside and NHS Lanarkshire found in breach of Data Protection Act

Posted on November 26, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

A press release from the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found NHS Tayside and NHS Lanarkshire in breach of the Data Protection Act after investigating complaints concerning the disposal of patient information at Strathmartine Hospital in Dundee and Law Hospital in Carluke. The ICO was alerted to both data breaches earlier…

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UK: NHS lost patient details 135 times in two years

Posted on November 25, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Kaya Burgess reports: The NHS has lost the confidential medical records and personal details of thousands of patients in a “catalogue of errors” uncovered by an investigation into how the health service handles data. A “fundamental re-examination” of how the NHS deals with personal data was demanded last night after research showed that a series…

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NZ: Police don't often dip into DNA samples

Posted on November 25, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Police say they rarely use DNA samples taken from newborn babies to help their investigations. The Privacy Commissioner has suggested in a submission to the Health Ministry that two million DNA samples, taken from a heel-prick test of babies born since 1969, should be destroyed or transferred to a secure authority. […] Privacy Commissioner Marie…

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Brazilian Police Infringe on Women's Privacy while Investigating Abortions

Posted on November 25, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Last week Brazilian police continued to investigate over 1,000 women suspected of having abortions, which are illegal in Brazil. According to BBC News, 150 women have already been charged and 30 sentenced to community service in connection to a family planning clinic in Campo Grande, a southwestern city. The clinic, which closed in 2007, operated…

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Microchips for AIDS patients in eastern Indonesia

Posted on November 24, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

The situation described below really raises so many ethical, civil liberties, and privacy issues… Niniek Karmini and Irwan Firdaus of the Associated Press report: Lawmakers in Indonesia’s remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips — part of extreme efforts to monitor…

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Microsoft, Google Joust—and Concur—On Personal Health Records

Posted on November 24, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Chad Berndtson reports: They may be cutthroat competitors. But tried as their representatives did to explain the fundamental differences between two personal health record (PHR) platforms,Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Google also may yet have some detente—at least when it comes to the like-minded goal of managing vast quantities of personal health information to benefit end…

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