Marty Griffin reports: Dr. Bhola Roy is a board certified internist. These days he spends hour after hour on his computer, ordered by Medicare to file all of his records electronically. “Medicare is mandating to us, we have to use electronic health records,” he said. That mandate went horribly wrong, when in a lawsuit, Dr….
The FACT Act invades asbestos victims’ privacy; we urge you to vote no
I didn’t know about this advocacy by Asbestos Cancer Victims’ Rights Campaign but agree with their position: November 11, 2013 Dear Representative, As organizations concerned about protecting personal privacy, we write to express our strong concerns about H.R. 982, the “Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act” or FACT Act. The FACT Act requires asbestos trust funds to file…
European Data Protection Authorities investigate bank data security
The Belgian and Dutch Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) will be conducting an investigation into the security of SWIFT’s payment networks following, among others, international media reports on foreign intelligence services – possibly the NSA – allegedly having unlawful access under European law to financial messaging data at SWIFT. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP) and the Belgian…
Hack of MacRumors forums exposes password data for 860,000 users
Dan Goodin reports: MacRumors user forums have been breached by hackers who may have acquired cryptographically protected passwords belonging to all 860,000 users, one of the top editors of the news website said Tuesday evening. Read more on Ars Technica and, to be on the safe side, change your password for the forum and for any other…
Medical ethics experts chime in on Eckert case
A quick pointer to an article by Radley Balko that looks at the medical ethics questions raised by the David Eckert case, which I discussed here. It’s interesting to note that the medical ethics experts Balko interviewed pretty much said the same thing I had said in my post.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner issues statement on Loyaltybuild data breach
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has received a preliminary report on the findings of its inspection team following an inspection today at Loyaltybuild, the company at the centre of the recent data breach. The inspection team confirmed the extent of the breach in which the full card details of over 376,000 customers…