Here’s an example of where patients knowingly give up privacy in exchange for more information that can help them in their struggles… Ronnie Bachman reports: The day that Dave deBronkart learned he had Stage 4 kidney cancer, his doctor handed him a prescription slip. On it, he’d scribbled ACOR.org. Within 11 minutes of submitting his…
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A hacked Twitter account may cost as much as $1,000
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab report that hacked accounts of Twitter and other services are being sold online for hundreds of dollars. Big revenues made on stolen data make hacking programs and viruses very popular among cyber criminals. According to Kaspersky Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev there were Gmail accounts for sale on Russian hacker forums, (asking price…
Data Privacy Day 2010
Today is Data Privacy Day. I’ve covered a number of events going on over on PogoWasRight.org, but I thought I would use today to mention an aspect of PHI privacy that I haven’t really blogged about here before: emailing your doctor. As a healthcare provider, I understand that my patients like the convenience of being…
IE Windows vuln coughs up local files
Dan Goodin reports: If you use any version of Internet Explorer to surf Twitter or other Web 2.0 sites, Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina can probably read the entire contents of your primary hard drive. The security consultant at Core Security said his attack works by clicking on a single link that exploits a chain of…
FL: Judge: Lawyers can subpoena abortion info
UPI reports: Lawyers for a multimillionaire philanthropist can seek abortion records of women suing him for sexually molesting them, a Florida judge has ruled. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele told Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers Wednesday there are limits on their ability to subpoena abortion records, The Palm Beach Post reported. They can only do…
Fla. woman fights ruling that kept her in hospital
Bill Kaczor of the Associated Press reports: Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there. She smoked cigarettes during the first six months of her pregnancy and was admitted on a false alarm of premature labor. Her doctor argued she was risking a…