Alan Travis reports: Doctors and other health professionals will be asked to identify people who are “vulnerable to being drawn into terrorism” as part of the government’s redrawn counter-terrorism programme to be detailed on Tuesday. […] One “key message” of the document is that it is not a programme to spy on Muslim communities, but…
LibriVox Forum Hacked
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BM: Customers’ data put at risk on Govt website
Sam Strangeways reports: The e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of more than 1,200 people have been published on Government’s website. The sensitive data was available to view last week on a customer feedback page concerning the Transport Control Department at www.gov.bm The information was removed after The Royal Gazette informed the Ministry of Transport of…
A call to do more on privacy
Joseph Conn writes: The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology recently took a white-paper whipping from the HHS inspector general’s office. I had a chance during a telephone interview last week to hear from a rebuttal witness, privacy lawyer Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer at the ONC. Pritts said the government is…
Pointer: Are we blasé about breaches?
Dan Raywood quotes a number of security experts in an article on SC Magazine that poses the question as to whether consumers have become blasé about breaches.
MA: Two women investigated for identity fraud after obtaining information through employee database
Tara Johnson reports: Auburn Police assisted the Millbury Police Department in the arrest of two women from Connecticut on Tuesday, May 24, currently under investigation for identity theft. According to Auburn Police Sgt. Jeffrey Lourie, the two women were taken into custody after they acquired several credit card account applications at Toys-R-Us and Macy’s Department…