Scott F. Roberts briefly overviews the HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and FTC risks physicians may run if they store patients’ credit card data. Read more on National Law Review.
North Dakota amends breach notification law to include medical information
V. John Ella writes: North Dakota has amended its data breach notification law to include “medical information” and “health insurance information.” See N.D. Century Code, Section 51-30-01. Amendments to the law also provide an exemption for HIPAA covered entities, business associates, or subcontractors so long as they are in compliance with breach notification requirements under title 45, Code…
Austereo confirms it made four calls to royal prank hospital seeking permission to air call
Holly Byrnes reports: The London nurse who took her own life after being pranked by Austereo for royal baby news is believed to have kept secret more phone calls from the radio network in the days before her suicide. While details of the hoax call made to Saldanha in December 2012 made headline news around…
New EU rules: Telco only SOMETIMES has to tell you it spaffed your data
The Register has an article from Out-Law.com that begins: New rules setting out the circumstances in which telecoms companies need to report personal data breaches, as well as the kind of information they need to share in those reports, have come into force. The EU’s Regulation on the notification of personal data breaches (7-page/756KB PDF) applies…
Ca: Lawsuit on hospital privacy breach gets court ok
Amy Woolvett reports: One of the largest medical privacy breaches in recent Canadian history could see almost 700 patients sue South West Health. A Supreme Court judge has given the okay to proceed with a class action lawsuit over the health authority’s patient information leak. In April 2012, South West Health learned that an employee…
Health apps run into privacy snags
Twenty of the most popular health apps transmit information – usually without user knowledge – to a web of nearly 70 companies, according to research conducted by Evidon for Financial Times. Read more here (sub. required).