It has not been a great year for infosecurity for Claremont-based Scripps College, it seems. Back in July, they disclosed that an employee had been sharing student financial aid applications with an unauthorized individual on and off since 2008. The employee was not thought to have any malicious intent, but it was still a breach,…
NZ: Immigration staff axed over privacy breaches
Danya Levy reports: Immigration New Zealand has breached the privacy of more than 200 people – most of whom were not informed – in incidents in the past three years that led to 10 staff members losing their jobs. It follows privacy breaches by state agencies including Work and Income, Inland Revenue and ACC, and…
Supporters Wail as Judge Denies Bail to Hactivist
Sounds like things got a bit testy between accused hacker Jeremy Hammond’s lawyer and the judge at his bail hearing. Adam Klasfeld has the report on Courthouse News.
CN: Police crack ring of personal information thieves
Jiang Yabin reports: Fengxian district police have arrested 11 people suspected of illegally selling personal information, local media reported Wednesday. The case involved about 1 billion pieces of personal information, according to a report in the Shanghai Evening Post. Fengxian district police got onto the case in June while they were investigating an illegal gold…
Ca: Snooping in health files to be made illegal
The Winnipeg Free Press reports: The Selinger government will make it tougher for health-care workers to snoop in patient files. The NDP introduced a bill Wednesday making it an offence for an employee to use or access personal health information without authorization or to falsify that information. […] The legislation already includes penalties for disclosing…
Mollica on the Seventh Circuit on Medical Privacy and the ADA
Samuel Bagenstos writes: Over at his very helpful blog, Paul Mollica has this post on a case the Seventh Circuit decided yesterday on an employer’s ADA obligations to keep employees’ medical information confidential. An excerpt: While the Americans with Disabilities Act protects medical information about employees disclosed to an employer as a result of “medical examinations…