Philip Janquart reports: Kaiser intentionally performed HIV tests on thousands of health plan members without their consent, alleges a class action complaint filed in Clark County Superior Court. Lead plaintiff Mary E. Benton claims Kaiser instituted a new protocol in April 2013 that required members between 50 and 65 to receive Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)…
Obamacare: no criminal background check required to be a Navigator?
As I’ve commented previously, there are valid security concerns to be raised about the healthcare.gov site and system. Here’s one of them, in my opinion: Yesterday, during a congressional hearing, Kathleen Sebelius acknowledged that there are no criminal background checks required by the Affordable Care Act for those who serve as Navigators. States may have…
Anonymous threatens Singapore; Singapore threatens right back
AFP reports: Singapore will “spare no effort” to hunt down hackers from activist group Anonymous who last week threatened to wage a cyber war against the government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednesday. Read more on Rappler.com
Let me outta here! (healthcare.gov)
You’d think it shouldn’t be difficult to get your account deleted from HealthCare.gov, but, apparently, it was for the attorney whose data were exposed to someone else.
Are we getting blasé?
This morning, an excited tweeter urged people to nominate Adobe’s breach to the Guiness Book of World Records because it reportedly involved 150 million usernames and hashed passwords. I responded that there was already a breach on the books involving 150 million – the Shanghai Roadway D&B Marketing Services Co. Ltd breach, so at 150M,…
Who’s running^^^^^^^ ruining the store?
On October 22, Global Times reported: YTO Express, one of China’s largest express delivery companies, has been unable to stop employees from selling customer information to online dealers, despite its ongoing efforts to stamp out the practice, a company spokesman said Tuesday. The company’s admission illustrates the difficulty that the express delivery industry has had…