From the University of Florida: The personal information of more than 8,300 current and former students and employees of P.K. Yonge Development Research School was on a laptop computer stolen last month. P.K. Yonge is a kindergarten-through-grade-12 laboratory school affiliated with University of Florida’s College of Education. The computer files contained employee payroll, employee parking…
UK Information Commissioner (ICO) Enforcements and Website Hacks
“alexisfitzg” blogs: I did a brief analysis of the enforcement notices that have been handed out by the UK Information Commissioner (ICO) to organisations found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act. The idea was to see how many incidents were a result of a website hack (SQL Injection, XSS etc.) About 100…
Triplets' Parents Sue Hospital & Media
Dan McCue reports on a case in Illinois: Surrogate parents of newborn triplets claim a hospital and major media outlets violated medical privacy laws and subjected them to “humiliation, embarrassment and emotional distress” by publishing photos and stories about their newborns. The parents say they never gave Advocate Christ Medical Center permission to release personal…
Sensors and In-Home Collection of Health Data: A Privacy by Design Approach
From the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario’s web site: In-home health care monitoring devices are gaining in prominence. Technological improvements in networking, wireless communications, and the miniaturization of electronics have resulted in a suite of emerging technologies that rely on the collection of information from within the home, from an individual’s body, or both….
DE: State’s benefits consultant posts retirees’ sensitive info on Web
J. L. Miller reports: Aon Consulting, the state’s benefits consultant, accidentally posted the Social Security numbers, gender and dates of birth for about 22,000 retired state workers on the web two weeks ago, state officials and the company said today. The information was part of a request for proposals that AON had supplied to the…
Last of identity theft/credit card scammers in Russian scheme is sentenced
John Agar reports the follow-up on an ID theft ring linked to Russia (previous coverage here): The last of five suspects sentenced in a credit-card scheme linked to Russia was ordered Monday to spend three years in federal prison. Ameer Spinks, 25, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell. The judge also ordered…