Rosemary Westwood reports: A nonprofit watchdog is asking Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill to investigate whether a New Iberia crisis pregnancy center broke state law after it appeared to post the full names, last menstrual periods, and other personal health information of 13 clients online, despite claiming that it follows federal health privacy laws. In…
Category: Breaches
French internet operator fined $53 million for unsolicited ads and tracking users without consent
Suzanne Smalley reports: France’s data privacy regulator (CNIL) has fined the country’s biggest internet provider €50 million ($53 million) for sending customers ads they didn’t ask for and for continuing to use tracking code to monitor users’ activities even after they withdrew consent for the practice. The telecom giant Orange S.A. offers an electronic messaging…
VA Nurse Charged With Unlawfully Accessing Patient Health Information
GRAND RAPIDS – U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten today announced that Jessica Nicole Pitcher, 41, of Shelbyville, Michigan, was charged by misdemeanor information with unlawfully accessing health information pertaining to a patient of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs without authorization, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 1320d-6(a)(2)….
Finnish SA: Administrative fine imposed on Posti for unlawful processing of personal data
Posti is the Finnish mail and package delivery service. The Finnish State exercises the shareholder’s decision-making power over it. On December 6, the European Data Protection Board announced a decision by the Finnish Supervisory Authority that imposed a monetary penalty of 2.4 million euros and a reprimand. As EDPB summarizes the case: The Finnish Supervisory…