Jeremy Kohler reports: When a doctor ran into trouble in one state, the solution used to be simple: Move to another state and start over. Before 1990, there was no national tracking of malpractice or disciplinary actions by hospitals, licensing boards or professional societies. That changed after Congress established the National Practitioner Data Bank in…
Category: Breaches
Comments on DOJ’s Defense of The Broad View of “Exceeds Authorized Access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — And A Proposed Statutory Fix
Orin Kerr writes: In his post below, Stewart Baker writes that DOJ official James Baker “gave a persuasive defense” of the broad view of that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act should apply to Terms of Service violations and employee restrictions on computers. In this post, I want to explain why I don’t find DOJ’s defense…
Hacktivism, Anonymity, and Privacy
Olivier Sylvain writes: On Friday evening, within hours of posting U.S. Marshal Service mugshots of alleged members of Internet “hacktivist” group Anonymous, TalkingPointsMemo.com became the target of a relentless “distributed denial of service” or DDoS attack. According to a statement released by TPM founder and publisher Josh Marshall on TPM’s Facebook page, visitors could not access the site a…
Bank of America Sued Over Privacy Violations Due to Overseas Outsourcing
Jim Malmberg writes: Last month, a new lawsuit was filed in District Court for the District of Columbia against Bank of America Corporation; the nations largest bank holding company. The suit alleges that B of A has been outsourcing certain functions to overseas companies and that as a result has given access to the personal financial records…