Jenny David reports: Companies doing business in Israel will soon face mandatory data security and data breach notification requirements under regulations recently cleared by lawmakers. The data security and breach notice had been governed by voluntary guidelines issued in 2012 by the country’s privacy regulator, the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA). Companies that didn’t implement…
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Laptops containing 3.7 million Hong Kong voters’ data stolen after chief executive election
Ng Kang-chung reports: In what could be one of Hong Kong’s most significant data breaches ever, the personal information of the city’s 3.7 million voters was possibly compromised after the Registration and Electoral Office reported two laptop computers went missing at its backup venue for the chief executive election. The devices also stored the names of…
Dozens of patients’ medical records found lying in Melbourne street
Julia Medew reports: A hospital is being investigated for breaching the privacy of dozens of patients after medical records revealing a “swollen penis” and mental illnesses among other things, were found in a Coburg street. The Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is investigating how the records of 31 patients were removed from the John…
Vermont Department of Labor details data security breach at third party Vendor
America’s Joblink Alliance – a provider of the nationwide web-based database Joblink, which is used by the State of Vermont – has notified the State that the job seeker functionality of its website was compromised by a malicious software. The Joblink system, which is also used by nine other states, is a standalone system and…
New Mexico passes data breach notification and protection bill
Erich Falke writes: Then there were two. On March 16, 2017, the New Mexico state legislature passed a bill requiring that New Mexico residents be notified if their “personal identifying information” was affected by a breach of electronic data. Upon signature of the bill, New Mexico will join 47 other states requiring such notification, and the only…
No, you can’t defend your reputation if it means revealing PHI without the patient’s consent
Here we go again, it seems. No matter how irate you may be a patient’s bad review and no matter how unfair you think it may be, no, you cannot just reveal their protected health information without their consent – even if they revealed some of it themselves. Patrick Danner reports: A San Antonio doctor…