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DutchNews.nl reports: Local health boards are to revise the list of often personal questions they ask parents about their children because many are considered ‘unwanted interference’, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. Parents will no longer be asked about their income, psychiatric well-being or how often their children clean their teeth following numerous complaints, the paper states….

This may seem a tad off-topic for this blog, but I could not less this go unnoticed: AP reports: A US navy nurse has refused to force-feed prisoners who are on an extended hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the first protest of its kind at the detention centre, a rights lawyer and US official has said….

Pat Warren reports: The Baltimore Regional Benefit Office is reorganizing after what appears to be a privacy breach. A Baltimore employee of the benefits division was found with thousands of claims documents stacked in his office. “Any time that you’re evaluating the problems, you’re going to find other issues and other problems. We need management…

Mex Cooper reports: A medical centre that kept sensitive health records of nearly 1000 patients in a garden shed on a disused property in Melbourne’s south-east has been reprimanded for breaching privacy laws. Boxes of records containing the personal details of patients were discovered at the Narre Warren South site when the shed at the…

HIPAA criminal charges are still relatively uncommon, and frankly, I’m not sure why they’re not charged more often in cases of theft of patient information for tax refund fraud. I assume federal prosecutors know something that I don’t, though. In any event, here’s a case where a HIPAA criminal charge was filed: TYLER, Texas —…

Flowers Hospital in Alabama has asked the federal court to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit over an insider breach because the plaintiffs have failed to allege any actual misuse or harm. Read more on Law360.com (paywall).