Helsinki Times reports: The Finnish Defence Forces’ accusations that researchers have leaked the results of psychological tests conducted on hundreds of thousands of conscripts are exceptional, estimates Reijo Aarnio, the Data Protection Ombudsman of Finland. […] The scope of the alleged data leak is very unusual, if not outright unprecedented, says Aarnio.“But you’re talking about…
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TX: Thousands of papers containing personal information tossed in city recycling bin
Thousands of pages filled with personal information were found in an open top recycling dumpster. The City of Midland says the lids are often left open making it possible for papers to be blown out. They are warning residents to watch what they toss away. […] The company who owned the documents, Tipperary Corporations, is…
PA: Bariatric patients’ privacy was compromised, Crozer-Keystone says
Marie McCullough reports: The Crozer-Keystone Health System revealed Friday that about 900 bariatric-surgery patients’ privacy was breached because of an email error. According to the health system, an employee sent an email June 20 to let bariatric-surgery program patients know about a support group. The email addresses were inadvertently placed in the “cc” or carbon-copy…
NY: St. Peter’s gave me other people’s medical records: patient
St. Peter’s Health Partners is looking into a possible confidentiality violation after a man picked up his family’s records at the recently closed Altamont Internal Medicine & Pediatrics and discovered he also received other patients’ medical records. Read more on Albany Times Union.
Wikileaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason
Zeynep Tufekci writes: Just days after a bloody coup attempt shook Turkey, Wikileaks dumped some 300,000 emails they chose to call “Erdogan emails.” In response, Turkey’s internet governance body swiftly blocked access to Wikileaks. For many, blocking Wikileaks was confirmation that the emails were damaging to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the government, revealing…
Fired after NFL player’s medical chart leaked to ESPN, worker sues
There’s an update to the case involving the breach of Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical information. Daniel Chang reports: A secretary fired from Jackson Health System on grounds she breached the privacy of New York Giants’ player Jason Pierre-Paul’s medical records has sued Miami-Dade’s public hospital network, denying she accessed the private information and saying her former…