FourthAmendment.com quotes from a new opinion from U.S. District Court in Maryland holding that there is no Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in medical records held by a doctor. The case is United States v. Mitchell. Oops: corrected the above as I had omitted a critical “no.”
HIV researcher warns against protracted data freeze
Tara Carman reports that researchers are concerned over a halt to sharing data in the wake of reports of inappropriate access: A freeze on access to medical data from the B.C. government has the potential to seriously undermine the health care system if it goes on too long, a prominent Vancouver medical researcher said Friday….
Texas Data Breach Amendment Takes Effect; Connecticut On Deck
Steve Satterfield writes: This week, the much talked-about amendments to Texas’s breach notice statute took effect. Wepreviously blogged about these amendments, which are unprecedented in scope. With the amendments, the Texas statute now requires entities doing business in Texas to notify “any individual” whose “sensitive personal information” is acquired in a breach (unless the information is encrypted). The statute makes…
Ca: Internal Audit at University of Victoria Over Potential Privacy Breach (updated)
cmclean writes: The University of Victoria has launched in an internal audit into allegations of conflict interest and breach of privacy involving the Health Ministry. The government contracts with UVIC to conduct research on prescription drugs and the Health Ministry shares patient information with the university. The province believes that information may have been shared…
SMS Dakia & ITChowk Hacked, Data leaked by @0x00x00
A Website that offers SMS and other IT based services, SMS Dakia ( www.smsdakia.com ) has been hacked as well as a IT Forum that is dedicated to teaching IT to others in the Urda language ( www.itchowk.com ). The was just announced a short time ago via twitter from @0x00x00. The SMS Dakia leak was uploaded to drop-box in…
Pakistani Forums Hacked. Data leaked by @0x00x00
Hacktivist @0x00x00 has been on a mission over the past few weeks. After coming out of know where @0x00x00 has been on a rampage of attacks, some of which have been high profile. The most recent spree of attacks is towards some Pakistani based forums. The two forums that have been attacked are pak-forum.com and pakistani-forum.net which appear to be one in the…