Max Eddy reports: If you live in a city with robust public transit, you probably have a transit related app on your smartphone. They are essential to keep from looking like a tourist. For Londoners, the Tube Map Live Underground app lets them see the usual information like maps and routes, but also lets them…
UTA professors work to guard privacy in electronic medical records
Shlachter, Baker & Fuquay write: Electronic health records are all the rage these days. The value of enabling medical researchers to mine the data to discover, say, more cost-effective treatments or to catch a communicable disease is pretty clear. But there could be a few less-scrupulous uses of that information, too, given that each of…
SuperValu revises estimate of number of their customers affected by breach while total number of customers climbs to 500,000
SuperValu has revised its assessment of the number of customers affected by a recent breach involving its vendor Loyaltybuild. It now reports that 62,500 customers may have been affected. The estimate for Axa Insurance customers now affected has also been increased to 8,000. The number is now up to 500,000 across Europe, as other Loyaltybuild…
FL: Jacksonville Tax Return Consultant Arrested For Involvement In Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme
A 14-count indictment charging Deangelo Parker with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft was announced last week in Florida. If convicted, Parker faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for each of the seven counts of wire fraud and two years’ maximum imprisonment for each aggravated identity theft offense. Parker made his…
IN: Jeffersonville reports ‘serious’ breach of personal data that has been recurring since…. 2001!
Charlie White reports: Jeffersonville is notifying city vendors and officials of a recurring “serious” data breach in which their names and addresses — and some Social Security numbers — were mistakenly e-mailed to city employees. “Because this is a serious incident, we strongly encourage you to take preventative measures now to help prevent and detect…
Deal reached over doc's privacy breach
Meanwhile, in New Zealand, Joelle Dally reports on a case similar in some respects to cases I’ve recently mentioned on this blog involving Northern Inyo Hospital and the Guthrie clinic: The Canterbury District Health Board appears to have reached a deal to avoid legal action over a doctor’s 2007 privacy breach. The case could have…