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The Dutch Duty to Report Data Leaks

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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Ca: Pharmacy reused prescription bottles, left old Rx labels under new ones

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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Tort of intrusion upon seclusion and breaches of personal health information: the Court of Appeal decision in Hopkins v. Kay

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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MX: Vivanuncios user data stolen by hacker (nah – scraped by competitor)

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Update/Clarification: eBay reached out to DataBreaches.net to ask that we make clear that the breach did not occur after eBay purchased the site, but rather, it occurred while it was still on the W3 system – before eBay bought it. eBay also notes that “we launched an entirely new platform on January 15, 2015 when the acquisition was…

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How the HSBC whistleblower used the Internet to leak private bank information to the police

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Stefano Pozzeban reports: Hervé Falciani, the French-Italian whistleblower who handed over information on 100,000 HSBC client accounts to French authorities in 2009, has published a detailed account on how the transfer of the data actually took place. The IT engineer has published a book, La Cassaforte degli Evasori, which tells his side of the story, writing how he…

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Australia’s charges against Anonymous member accused of government hack changing again

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Dissent

Violet Blue reports: On March 11, Adam Bennett — the radio voice of Anonymous, LoraxLive who was arrested last year for alleged computer crimes — will finally learn what he’s being charged with. This had been expected to happen this week. Instead, at the last minute, Australian Commonwealth prosecutors — for the third time since…

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