LordKaT.com posted a curious message to members last week that they should change their passwords. It begins: If you have an account on this site, you should change your password. Why? Something strange happened on the site this morning. Our Turducken is Tasty, Tuesday Tech Talk, and How to Do It videos were removed from…
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Plans to migrate LAPD to Google’s cloud apps dropped
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: After more than two years of trying, the City of Los Angeles has abandoned plans to migrate its police department to Google’s hosted email and office application platform saying the service cannot meet certain FBI security requirements. As a result, close to 13,000 law-enforcement employees will remain indefinitely on the LAPD’s existing…
Fertile sperm donor draws criticism from FDA, docs
Marcus Wohlsen of Associated Press reports: Physicians and the federal government cited the case of a San Francisco Bay area man who has fathered 14 children as an example of the risks posed by the informal market for sperm donations, which doctors consider unsafe but some people call a civil liberties issue. Trent Arsenault, 36,…
Law enforcement can access data bank without doctors' knowledge
Carolyne Krupa reports: Physicians and other health professionals no longer will be notified if someone accesses information about them through the National Practitioner Data Bank for an investigation, according to a federal rule that takes effect Dec. 23. The rule, an exemption to the Privacy Act, is meant to prevent tampering with evidence and is…
UK: How anonymous is NHS patient data? Dept. of Health granted 132 requests for identifiable patient data without patient consent
Sade Laja reports: A claim by the Department of Health that patient data shared with private firms for medical research would be anonymised has been challenged by privacy campaigners. The prime minister said last week that plans to share records and other NHS data would make it easier to develop and test new drugs and…
Dallas convicts no longer shred confidential data
Jason Whitely reports the demise of a practice that never should have been: Dallas County’s little-known community service program which lets convicted criminals sort and then shred confidential documents and personal information has come to an end after News 8 questioned the practice. For more than a decade, parolees and probationers had been working off…