Jeanne Price reports: With clients in over 150 countries around the glove, architectural and building firm AECOM employs thousands of individuals worldwide. Now many of those workers and their former colleagues have become part of the latest US corporate payroll data breach. AECOM is an acronym for Architecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Maintenance – the company’s five…
Dutch health boards to ditch intimate questions to parents, teenagers
DutchNews.nl reports: Local health boards are to revise the list of often personal questions they ask parents about their children because many are considered ‘unwanted interference’, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. Parents will no longer be asked about their income, psychiatric well-being or how often their children clean their teeth following numerous complaints, the paper states….
Guantánamo nurse refuses to force-feed prisoners
This may seem a tad off-topic for this blog, but I could not less this go unnoticed: AP reports: A US navy nurse has refused to force-feed prisoners who are on an extended hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the first protest of its kind at the detention centre, a rights lawyer and US official has said….
Baltimore VA Benefits Office Reorganizing After Alleged Privacy Breach
Pat Warren reports: The Baltimore Regional Benefit Office is reorganizing after what appears to be a privacy breach. A Baltimore employee of the benefits division was found with thousands of claims documents stacked in his office. “Any time that you’re evaluating the problems, you’re going to find other issues and other problems. We need management…
OH: Laptop with sensitive information stolen from Summit County Courthouse
Adam Ferrise reports: Someone stole a laptop computer and a flash drive Thursday from a court reporter’s office inside the Summit County Courthouse. The laptop and flash drive contained sensitive information about ongoing court cases, Summit County Sheriff Inspector Bill Holland said. Holland declined to specify what the computer contained or what cases because it…
UK constable accused of breaching data protection law to access women’s private info
RT reports: UK chief constable, Nick Gargan, is under criminal investigation for allegedly breaking data protection legislation to access personal information of younger females whom he’s accused of inappropriately propositioning. Previously stationed at Avon and Somerset, the former constable once held the position of chief of the National Policing Improvement Agency, and was reportedly tipped to…