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Leader of Florida ID theft ring convicted

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Dissent

Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…

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Ca: Sources say information accessed related to Noelle Paquette murder

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Dissent

More snoops fired. Tyler Kula reports: Hospital staff have reportedly been fired after a privacy breach at Bluewater Health. Multiple sources told The Observer Monday as many as 17 people were dismissed after non-clinical staff accessed patient information through a password-protected system — without authorization — earlier this month. Sources told The Observer that at…

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Disciplinary panel can proceed against doctor who discussed patient’s details on train, say judges

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Dissent

The current issue of the British Medical Journal has an article by Clare Dyer on disciplinary proceedings involving a psychiatrist who discussed a patient’s case on a crowded train. The NHS trust that runs Broadmoor secure hospital can go ahead with disciplinary action against a consultant forensic psychiatrist who discussed a patient’s medical report with a…

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Audit cites UIHC for lacking encryption

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Dissent

Tara Bannow reports: About half of the more than 500 laptops issued to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees last summer did not have encryption software to protect sensitive information, a deputy state auditor said Monday. A state of Iowa auditor’s office report released Monday described how the lack of encryption software on some…

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There ought to be a law

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Dissent

On Data Privacy Day 2013, here’s  a reminder that we have a looooong way to go. KRQE in New Mexico reports:  Hundreds of personal documents from dozens of people were all found in a very public place, but how did they get there and who’s at risk? The court files were found in a Bernalillo…

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Your medical records are in a dumpster in another state. Now what?

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Dissent

Melissa Payne reports that a man in the Shoals (Alabama) found thousands of medical files from a doctor’s office in Virginia in dumpsters around town. How they wound up in Florence, Alabama is anyone’s guess at this point. “It’s concerning because there are phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, social security numbers in these files,” said…

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