In today’s installment, we gaze into the crystal ball to see what 2011 might have in store for us: What are the top security and privacy issues facing the healthcare industry in 2011? A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach, and governance were asked to weigh in with their forecasts…
UK: Scandal of computer snooping by public servants includes medical information
Jack Blanchard reports the results of a freedom of information request on police in Yorkshire, UK. Revelations concerning non-medical incidents are posted to PogoWasRight, but here are the medically related incidents: The cases include… a doctor in Doncaster caught looking at a colleague’s medical records. At one hospital, in Rotherham, a cleaner was caught only…
Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records
Data Stewardship: Managing Personally Identifiable Information in Electronic Student Education Records SLDS Technical Brief Guidance for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) SLDS Technical BriefGuidance for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) November 2010, Brief 2 NCES 2011-602 The growth of electronic student data in America’s education system has focused attention on the ways these data are…
UK: North Yorkshire Police in 39 data protection law breaches
Julie Hayes reports: North Yorkshire police officers and staff breached data protection laws 39 times in the past three years, the force has revealed. In response to a Freedom of Information request, North Yorkshire Police said the incidents included officers and staff conducting checks of private telephone numbers, obtaining personal data without consent, accessing personal…
Sensitive Scottish court records discovered at recycling bank
A press release from the UK ICO: The Scottish Court Service breached the Data Protection Act by failing to take sufficient steps to prevent court documents containing sensitive personal details being accidentally disposed of at a local recycling bank in Glasgow, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was first made aware of…
(update) NYC SSA breach involved more than SSN
As an update to the breach involving a subcontractor working in the NYC Social Security Administration Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, other news sources such as WTEN report the name of the individual arrested in the case: Evan Kane of Waterford, New York. It also appears that in addition to 15,000 Social Security Numbers, other…