Francis Elliott reports: Cold calls by Labour which urged half a million people to vote in a recorded message breached privacy rules, the information watchdog ruled today. The party targeted 495,000 people despite previously agreeing not to use unsolicited, automated phone calls in its campaign. Householders receiving the calls heard a message recorded by Liz…
Category: Breaches
Ca: Cavoukian fires back at criticism of Durham Health report
Kathleen Lau reports: Ontario Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian has taken issue with a security vendor’s criticism of her recent report following the loss of a USB key containing patient health data at Durham Health region. Earlier this week, Websense Inc.’s Canadian country manager Fiaaz Walji said Ann Cavoukian’s order that the Durham Health Region should “strongly encrypt” its data…
Editorial: Florida trampled woman’s rights
Today’s St. Petersburg Times has an editorial about a case previously covered on PHIprivacy.net. They write: Samantha Burton wanted to make her own decisions about her obstetrical care, but the state of Florida wouldn’t let her. Claiming it was protecting her fetus, the state took away her rights as a patient and a citizen and…
Cisco’s Backdoor For Hackers
Andy Greenberg reports: Activists have long grumbled about the privacy implications of the legal “backdoors” that networking companies like Cisco build into their equipment–functions that let law enforcement quietly track the Internet activities of criminal suspects. Now an IBM researcher has revealed a more serious problem with those backdoors: They don’t have particularly strong locks…