Many readers of this blog will be familiar with the stringent protections which the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) affords in respect of personal health data (see further the definition of ‘sensitive personal data’ in s. 2 DPA). Thus, for example, if a data controller wishes to avoid contravening the first data protection principle (the…
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House Bill to Limit Scope of Red Flags Rule with Amended "Creditor" Definition
Hunton & Williams have an informative law blog, Privacy and Information Security Law Blog, and if you haven’t already bookmarked, you should. Yesterday they wrote: On November 17, 2010, Representative John Adler (D-NJ) introduced the Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010 (H.R. 6420) to “amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act with respect to the…
Penalty-based system could make you sick
In a letter to the editor, Matt Pierce of Bloomington, Indiana and District 61 state representative. comments: Indiana University portrays its new Health Engagement Program as providing employee discounts on health insurance premiums in exchange for healthier living. In truth, it punishes employees who refuse to surrender their privacy to the university or allow it…
CIA Must Disclose Records on Human Experiments
Annie Youderian reports: A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. Three veterans groups and six individual veterans sued the CIA and other government agencies, claiming they used about 7,800 soldiers as…
Se: Chlamydia 'refuseniks' face police round up
Eleven people in northern Sweden who have refused to submit to a test for the sexually transmitted chlamydia could be forcibly collected by police, reported the local Norrländska Socialdemokraten (NSD) daily. The eleven people, all resident in Norrbotten in the far north of Sweden, have repeatedly ignored requests, summonses, and even resisted police visits to…
‘Fingerprint’ software to stem cyber crime
Revolutionary digital fingerprinting software invented by Edinburgh computer scientists could be set to stem the growing tide of cyber crime. The technology, developed at Edinburgh Napier University, allows CCTV-style monitoring of online systems. It digitally mimics the DNA matching process used in the real world. The software, which will be on sale in six months,…