Jon Bowman reports: DENVER — In Park Hill … the new Smiley Middle School Campus is getting ready for classes to begin, but amid all the cleaning up, someone threw out boxes of student records with all types of personal information, including birth certificates, which were supposed to be stored. When FOX31 Denver showed up…
Media spotlight without facts makes mHealth privacy a tougher task
Senator Schumer got a lot of positive media coverage for asking the FTC to investigate whether fitness apps are selling personal information. But in naming FitBit, Schumer may have pointed the finger at a company that does not sell personal information. Judy Mottl writes: …. The lawmaker, Chuck Schumer (D), is obviously acting in best faith…
ACTE members’ data stolen by hackers
Rob Gill reports: Hackers have stolen data of all members of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives. ACTE’s executive director Greeley Koch said that there had been a “malicious theft” yesterday (August 11) of members’ names and email address, although no other data such as credit card details or addresses was acquired by the hackers….
The Question Doctors Can't Ask
I’ve blogged a number of times about a Florida law that prohibits doctors from asking patients about guns in the home absent a specific concern. I’m already on record that I think this is an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment rights of doctors and that states should not be able to sidestep our ability…
Medical information requests of employees can be tricky
Banu Ramachandran writes: Imagine receiving a job application from an individual who appears highly qualified for the position you seek to fill. You eagerly invite the person to interview, but you are slightly surprised when he arrives because he uses a wheelchair and cannot travel up the stairs at the front door to the office….
University of Miami reaches settlement in patient data breach lawsuit
A federal court in Florida has been asked to approve a proposed settlement involving the University of Miami Health System. The proposed settlement would resolve a lawsuit stemming from their disclosure (pdf) earlier this year that thousands of patients’ billing vouchers stored with an off-site storage vendor were missing. At the time of the breach notification, UM revealed…