It’s a ghoulish fact that early medical research had to be conducted on stolen corpses. The problem in those days was a heightened sense of privacy about the human body. Feelings ran so high that medical schools were forced to hire grave-robbers to provide anatomical specimens. Michelangelo ransacked morgues to carry out his physiology research….
Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data
Robert Pear reports: President-elect Barack Obama’s plan to link up doctors and hospitals with new information technology, as part of an ambitious job-creation program, is imperiled by a bitter, seemingly intractable dispute over how to protect the privacy of electronic medical records. Lawmakers, caught in a crossfire of lobbying by the health care industry and…
WA: Hacker hits county Web site
San Juan County’s Web site was hacked January 15. The county Information Technology department is warning computer users to keep a close eye on their personal data if they accessed the site that day, although it does not appear that any data was compromised. About 8:35 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009 morning the County’s website…
TN: Howard Student Investigated for Identity Theft
David Carroll reports: A Howard High School student is being investigated on several counts of identity theft, according to officials from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office and the Chattanooga Police Department. The student, reportedly a 15-year-old male, has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the Fraud Department in Chattanooga and School Resource Officers…
OR: Stolen laptop creates a stir at Southwestern
Erica Rush reports: The privacy of hundreds of community college students is put at risk, after someone steals a laptop computer from the campus at Southwestern Oregon Community College. The school issued a press release on Friday stating that a new computer that contained student records for approximately 200 current and former students at Southwestern…
Ca: Company sends criminal record to total stranger in Simcoe
Mark Bonokoski reports: When the brown manila envelope arrived in the mail the other day at his home in rural Simcoe — the Toronto sender’s name discreetly reading P. Canada — Dave Eberly assumed his pardon had finally come through. […] And when that manila envelope arrived in the mail, Eberly thought it would be…