Over on PHIprivacy.net, I’ve been covering a HIPAA privacy complaint concerning Monroeville, Pennsylvania’s EMS operations. At the heart of the complaint, people who had no current reason to receive EMS alerts by text or email were receiving notifications on medical emergency calls. Charges and counter-charges have rocked the community, with the police chief being demoted…
Category: Breaches
Class claims ACT & College Board sell students’ Social Security numbers
Jack Bouboushian reports: ACT and The College Board sell high school students’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, to third parties at 33 cents a head, a class action claims in Federal Court. Lead plaintiff Rachel Specter sued ACT Inc. and The College Board, the company behind the SAT and Advanced Placement tests. ACT and…
NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say
Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani report: The National Security Agency has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at…
Len Brown affair: Vodafone warns staff on privacy
Amelia Wade reports: Vodafone has sent some of its staff a warning about delving into records after the Herald‘s hunt for the sender of an anonymous and threatening text to Bevan Chuang. The text was sent from an 021 number and warned her not to go public with details of her affair with Auckland Mayor Len…