Matthew Agius reports: Three men have been released on bail in relation to the leaking of personal details relating to deceased hospital patients to funeral directors. The son of a patient who died at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre had told local newspaper the Times of Malta that two funeral directors had turned up at…
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Parking Officer, City Employee Involved In Privacy Breach: Molloy
The province’s Privacy Commissioner has made a number of recommendations in light of a recent case involving a parking enforcement officer who was assaulted while on duty in December of 2017. Commissioner Donovan Molloy’s report says while the matter was reported to the RNC and the man’s superiors, he took matters a step further and…
MUSC terminates employees who ‘snoop’ in patients’ medical records
Mary Katherine Wildeman and Lauren Sausser report: Thirteen employees were fired in 2017 from the Medical University of South Carolina after administrators determined they had broken federal law by using patient records without permission, spying on patient files or disclosing private information. Some of these privacy breaches involved high-profile patients. Read more on Charleston Post…
Ontario Superior Court: Insurer on the hook to defend hospital employee in privacy breach lawsuit
Lyle Adriano reports: The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that an insurance company is obligated to defend a hospital employee against a privacy breach lawsuit by a former patient. In the case Oliveira v. Aviva Canada Inc., the ex-patient alleged that the employee – who is not involved in providing care to the patient –…
Can Your Business be Liable for an Employee’s Intentional Data Leak?
Revision Legal has a post about insider leaks. The article starts by discussing the Morrisons case in the UK, where an employee vindictively leaked data. In a ruling that surprised many, the court held that although Morrisons was a victim of their employee, other employees who sued Morrisons could hold Morrisons liable: This creates, in…
Social Security numbers from thousands of California state workers exposed in data breach
Adam Ashton reports: Social Security numbers for thousands of state employees and contractors were exposed in a recent data breach at the Department of Fish and Wildlife, according to a memo that the department sent to its workers this week. The department discovered the data breach on Dec. 22, but did not disclose the breach…