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Over on PogoWasRight.org, I’ve covered some of last week’s revelations about domestic surveillance activities by the NSA. The first revelation, that of a secret FISC order compelling Verizon to turn over its business call records on a daily basis to the NSA, alarmed me.  Although government officials – including President Obama – were quick to…

I’m  heading out to the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference for a few days, and giving myself a break from news gathering and posting until I get back. On Sunday, I should resume posting and updating the blog. Cheers!

I’m  heading out to the Privacy Law Scholar’s Conference for a few days, and giving myself a break from news gathering and posting until I get back. On Sunday, I should resume posting and updating the blog.  One year, hopefully, PLSC and the Patient Privacy Rights conference will not be opposite each other so that…

What can possibly go wrong…. David Knowles reports: Qpid.me, a California-based company, is hoping to make the sharing of STD test results as commonplace as Facebook status updates or Twitter messages, and has partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to get their message across. The company’s newly launched, free service helps direct anyone…

All About Information writes: Yesterday, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia vacated an order that required non-party physicians to provide a class action plaintiff with the contact information of patients who were potential class members. It rendered a principled judgement on physician-patient confidentiality Read more about the decision in Logan v. Hong on All…

Karen McKinley reports: Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has confirmed a privacy breach involving diagnostic images, but are providing few details as to who was involved. Hospital CEO Andree Robichaud and chief of staff Dr. Gordon Porter said Monday that the MRI scans of about 500 people were shared with a physician outside the…