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Gunnar De Winter writes: The advances in genetics and genomics have given rise to a flourishing personal genomics industry. All you need is a credit card and you can order a DNA kit on the internet. Once it arrives, all you have to do is rub a swab over your cheeck and send it back. A…

Theodore J. Kobus III has a nice little A to Z of Healthcare Data Breaches on Data Privacy Monitor.

Paul Roberts writes: With more and more victims of identity theft minted every day, figuring out if you’re one of the unlucky masses with a leaked email password is yeoman’s work. Now one security researcher is trying to make it easy with PwnedList.com, a Web site that collects leaked and stolen data, then tells Internet users…

In what looks to be the first of a number of “name and shame” postings, an individual or individuals posting as “PAYFAIL” have uploaded some personal information on dozens of former and current PayPal executives. In the press release, PayFail writes: In the wake of major corporations trying to silence the voices of those who dare…

Of note to healthcare professionals in Ireland: the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has released a new guide on protecting highly sensitive health records. The guide and self assessment tool are available to download from www.hiqa.ie or from Facebook or Twitter by searching ‘HIQA’. Source: TheJournal.ie

David Taintor reports: A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered an injunction on a Florida law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving state benefits. An ACLU lawsuit filed in September claimed the Florida law violates the Fourth Amendment by requiring welfare applicants to submit to a “suspicionless” drug test. The suit was filed on behalf…