A small item of local news in Lincoln, Nebraska caught my eye this morning. And the more I read, the more concerned I became. Kevin Abourezk reports on the Lincoln Journal Star: Lancaster County officials think they may have found a way to move more than 200 boxes of medical records left in the basement…
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Settlement of Lawsuit against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Former Vendor Gets Tentative Approval
Back in August 2011, Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC) disclosed that medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, including names and diagnosis codes, had been exposed on a public website due to the actions of a former billing contractor’s employee who, seeking help converting the data, had uploaded the file on the “Student of Fortune” website. Both…
Does Walgreens’ New Up-Close-And-Personal Pharmacy Approach Violate Privacy Laws?
Chris Morran writes: In an effort intended to provide pharmacy customers a less impersonal experience, some Walgreens stores have been redesigned to get pharmacists out in the store, consulting with customers at desks, without the traditional counter (and sometimes panes of bulletproof glass) between them. But the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services wants…
FL: Five Defendants Sentenced In Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud And Access Device Fraud Schemes
Alex Dontfred, 29, David Tilus, 27, Sherika Rowe, 20, Fritznel Etienne, 24, and Latonya Ware, 27, all of Lauderhill, were sentenced for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme and an access device fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of over $137,000 in fraudulent tax refund claims and over $49,000 in unauthorized…
Breaking up is hard to do, Tuesday edition
Arcadia Home Care & Staffing (Arcadia Health Services, Inc.) is notifying employees that their personnel information, including Social Security numbers and bank account information, is in the hands of a former affiliate who has started a new company that competes with theirs. According to the letter sent to employees, Charles E. Symes, II had previously obtained…
Boffins propose brainwave privacy standard
Simon Sharwood reports: Researchers from MIT Media Lab and the Technical University of Denmark have raised the issue of “Privacy for Personal Neuroinformatics”, a field they feel deserves attention because brainwave data is starting to go public. The four writers’ paper on the idea points out that electroencephalography (EEG) has been around for ages and records brain…