Mark Bergen reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly decided to scrub an entire category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web. Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the website…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Hackers Altered 2016 Voter Rolls and Stole Private Data on U.S. Citizens
Jacob Weindling reports: TIME dropped a bombshell report today that should be getting more attention than it currently is. Here is the tl;dr version of a story that you should read in its entirety. The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least one successful…
U.S Department of Education looking into security breach at OU
Now THIS really surprises me. Robyn Craig reports: The U.S. Department of Education will become involved with [Oklahoma University] regarding the recent security breach, which released thousands of students’ personal information. The breach, which violated federal law, resulted in the release of student information, including student financial information. Therefore, the U.S. Department of Education is…
Oral Argument in LabMD Case to Test FTC’s Enforcement Authority
Jimmy H. Koo reports: The Federal Trade Commission will have an opportunity to justify its data security enforcement authority when oral argument in LabMD Inc. v. FTC starts June 21 before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, attorneys told Bloomberg BNA. One of the critical issues likely to emerge in the case…
Medical records stolen from old nursing home; no one takes responsibility????
Barb Ickes reports: What no doubt will come as a shock to some is no surprise to others. An East Moline parent called last week and told about discovering two sets of strangers’ medical records in her daughter’s belongings. The documents included lists of medications, doctors’ notes, diagnoses and other personal information, including Social Security…
The messy, messy month of May
Compiling data for Protenus, Inc.’s breach barometer should be relatively routine and straight-forward. In May, however, it wasn’t. Here’s a rundown on the factors that complicated our analyses: Investigating patient data put up for sale on the dark web. Determining whether the breaches were legitimate or fake turned out to be headache-inducing, as the following scenarios…