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John Wesley Hall reports on two court rulings out of Texas concerning the same case: United States v. Zadeh. From the court’s opinion in one of the cases: In this case, it is clear that the information sought by the DEA is relevant to its investigation, but the question is whether the use of an administrative subpoena…

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced the indictment of five individuals – DEVIN BAZILE, 30, SHARNIQKWA DUKES, 24, AHMEEN EVANS, 26, JOSHUA HAUGHTON, 28, and ANNIE VUONG, 27 – for using the stolen personal identifying information of approximately 200 victims to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from Barclaycard. Following a two-and-a-half-year-long…

And so it begins.

WHAG reports: Even confidential medical records may not be completely confidential. Currently, insurance policy holders have access to patient care information via an insurance bill that is mailed home, which can put many people who are in abusive situations at risk. […] But as of February 3, the Maryland General Assembly updated Bill 790, making…

Patrick McGreevy reports: Privacy advocates are calling for more safeguards related to a state collection of DNA samples from 16 million Californians in a nondescript government warehouse in the Bay Area. The biobank holds blood taken with the prick of a heel from almost every baby born in California for the last three decades. It…

BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor has a write-up on the changes in HHS/OCR’s data breach tool and online submission of breaches. The team is working on both sites, and I’ve reported a bug to them with a request for certain features, but as Data Privacy Monitor notes, the breach submission form now requires more specific information/break…