Lindell Kay reports that a privacy of invasion lawsuit against a hospital was correctly dismissed because autopsy records are public information: The N.C. Appeals Court this week upheld a decision that Onslow Memorial Hospital employees did not violate the privacy rights of a murdered woman’s family by allegedly passing around her autopsy X-rays in 2009….
Category: Breaches
Leading French newsreader guilty of breaching ex-lover’s privacy
Henry Samuel reports: France’s best-known TV newsreader was on Wednesday found guilty of breaching his former mistress’s privacy for publishing her love letters in a novel, after a court ruled it could not be qualified as fiction. Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, 63, whose evening news broadcasts were regularly watched by eight million people until he was…
MD: School system seeking Social Security numbers
I’ve repeatedly criticized federal and state student tracking systems that are based on Social Security numbers. As I continue to shout into the wind, Alisha George reports: Heather McKenzie was surprised when the Social Security numbers of her three elementary school children were being requested by Carroll County Public Schools this year. As she continued to…
Hong Kong Introduces a Personal Data (Privacy) Amendment Bill
Gabriela Kennedy and Heidi Gleeson write: The Personal Data (Privacy) Amendment Bill (the “Bill“) was introduced into the Legislative Council on 13 July 2011. The Bill is the culmination of a lengthy consultation process into the reform of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (the “Ordinance“) which commenced in 2009. The Bill aims to bring the…