From the job-well-done dept.: New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, John Edwards, writes: Late last year, one of my senior investigating officers came to me with a file she’d been working on for quite a while. She was convinced the facts supported a finding of an “interference with privacy”, that is, a breach of the privacy principles,…
Category: Non-U.S.
Ca: Privacy officer accused of trying to block investigation into hospital breach
Olivia Carville reports: A privacy analyst at Trillium Health Centre is being investigated by Ontario’s privacy commissioner and his own hospital over allegations he tried to block an investigation by the provincial watchdog into a privacy breach. Earlier this year, Trillium Health Centre mistakenly mailed a patient medical record to a wellness clinic in Halton…
UK: ICO orders Hartlepool based NHS Trust to review data protection
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this enforcement notice: North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered by the ICO to review its data protection policy after a file containing sensitive patient information was found at a bus stop. It was one of a number of incidents over the last year which resulted in data being…
The Dutch Duty to Report Data Leaks
Jacomijn Christ and Hans Urlus of Greenberg Traurig, LLP write: On Feb. 1, 2015, the Dutch House of Representatives voted in favor of a legislative bill introducing a duty to report data leaks.1 The bill, titled Duty to Report Data Leaks and the Expansion of the Administrative Penalty Competence of Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA), will…
Ca: Pharmacy reused prescription bottles, left old Rx labels under new ones
CTV reports: A Toronto woman says she peeled back the labels on her medication bottles and found other people’s prescriptions behind them. Sarah Attwell says she noticed the labels were very thick after picking up her five prescriptions from a local Shoppers Drug Mart. “When I investigated and pulled the labels off, I noticed they’re…
Tort of intrusion upon seclusion and breaches of personal health information: the Court of Appeal decision in Hopkins v. Kay
Analysis of Hopkins v. Kay, this by Bradley J. Freedman, Barry Glaspell and Patrick Hawkins of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP: … In Hopkins v. Kay, a patient of a hospital, on her own behalf and that of other patients in the “class” proposed to be certified by the court, alleged that her hospital records had been accessed by…