The FTC wouldn’t grant a stay when LabMD requested a stay of their final order, so not surprisingly, LabMD is seeking an immediate and temporary stay from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. I’ve uploaded the motion here (pdf). I think they make a strong case for a stay, but see what you think after you…
Category: Exposure
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority notifies patients of mailing error
UW Health announced today that it is sending letters to certain patients about a privacy incident. UW Health learned on August 3, 2016, that patient satisfaction surveys were addressed “To the parents or guardians [patient’s name]” of some adult patients and mailed between July 29, 2016, and August 2, 2016. The enclosed cover letter was…
Millions of Australians caught in health records breach
Karen Middleton reports: When she addressed the annual conference of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Perth last week, Health Minister Sussan Ley was already in a hostile environment. […] Ley revealed that the health department had inadvertently committed a potentially serious breach of the Privacy Act by deliberately publishing supposedly anonymous Medicare…
Man arrested for streaming porn to electronic billboard
AP reports on this story out of Indonesia: Indonesian police say a man they arrested for broadcasting pornography on an electronic billboard in the country’s capital gained access to the system after it displayed its log-on credentials. Jakarta Police Chief Muhammad Iriawan said Wednesday that the suspect, 24-year-old Samudera Al Hakam Ralial, admits he hacked…
Ca: Patient information shows up at wrong Corner Brook company
Colleen Connors reports: Western Health faces a privacy breach after 10 pages of patient information were incorrectly sent to a company in Corner Brook Tuesday. The documents include patient names, phone numbers and information pertaining to their doctors. The paperwork also listed medical transportation expenses required for patients living at BayShore Estates, a personal care home…
AU: 96,000 public servants in new data breach
Noel Towell reports: The federal government is caught up in a second data privacy scare, this time involving a massive data-set on more then 96,000 of its public servants amid fears their confidential information might not be secure. In the second potentially serious Commonwealth data breach to become public in less than a week, the…