A recent breach in the UK has some people upset with the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust for its lack of transparency and left them guessing what hospital had the breach: The health trust responsible for Northwood’s Mount Vernon Hospital has refused to disclose the location of a major security breach involving confidential patient information….
Privacy Key Obstacle to Adopting Electronic Health Records, Study Finds
The United States could achieve significant health care savings if it achieved widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), but insufficient privacy protections are hindering public acceptance of the EHR concept, according to a new paper from researchers from North Carolina State University. The paper outlines steps that could be taken to boost privacy and…
(follow-up) UK: St Albans laptop theft warning
Alex Lewis reports: Security measures to protect people whose personal details were on a laptop stolen from the district council offices are soon to lapse, an opposition councillor has warned. After a laptop containing names and addresses of thousands of St Albans postal voters went missing in October last year, the council registered the details…
UK: Patients' details lost on train by Hertfordshire doctor (updated)
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has been found in breach of data protection after a doctor lost a memory stick on a train. The junior doctor had recorded details of patients’ conditions and medication on the device and was meant to hand it over to the next doctor on shift. But the doctor forgot…
Suspended Bangalore techie allegedly stole company data (updated)
NOTE: An entry that was posted in May and updated later that month was removed on July 2, 2011 after I was notified that the post contained material that had been removed by the original source of the entry, NDTV. Since NDTV has withdrawn all of their content and their update, I have decided to…
Library of Parliament Legislative Summary of Amendments to Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
The Library of Parliament recently published a legislative summary of Bill C-29: An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act(PIPEDA). […] “Bill C-29 adds several new definitions to PIPEDA. It preserves the existing definition of personal information as ‘information about an identifiable individual,’ but removes the wording excluding the names and coordinates…