From The Local: Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant are set to appear in Frederiksberg Court in Copenhagen in the latest development in the largest hacking case in Danish history. The two men are accused of stealing social security numbers from Denmark’s national driving licence database, illegally accessing information…
Judge temporarily blocks law that could close all Louisiana abortion clinics
Jonathan Kaminsky reports: A U.S. federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that advocates say would likely have closed all five abortion clinics in the state. The measure, signed into law by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in June and due to take effect Sept. 1, would require doctors who perform abortions…
Family of boy with brain tumor accuses British officials of cruelty
Every so often we hear about a case where parents find themselves in legal jeopardy for not following doctors’ advice. This seems to be another one of those cases. Danika Kirka reports: The grandmother of a British boy with a severe brain tumor has accused UK authorities of cruelty for seeking an arrest warrant and…
SC: School district's handling of Ebola concerns divides board members
Sarah Bowman reports: Three weeks after Beaufort County School District teachers traveled to West Africa, several school board members and parents question the way the district handled public information about Ebola concerns. […] Board of Education member JoAnn Orischak said balancing public knowledge and employee privacy is difficult. “The district would never be able to…
CORRECTION AND APOLOGY
On August 19, PHIprivacy.net posted an excerpt from The NewsStar concerning a breach of patient information for over 6,000 patients at E. A. Conway Medical Center. Today, PHIprivacy.net learned that TheNewsStar‘s coverage was inaccurate in some important respects. That post has now been replaced with a correction and an apology to the professor of ethical…
Can an Employee Really Steal Your Data and Then SLAPP You for It?
Shawn Tuma writes: Can an Employee Really Can Steal Your Data and Then SLAPP You for It? Yes, in California it just happened! The fact that this happened in California should be of no comfort to Texas businesses, however, because the Texas Anti-SLAPP law comes from California and, therefore, California jurisprudence is considered persuasive authority…