Ben Doherty reports: The personal details of nearly 10,000 people seeking asylum in Australia – unlawfully posted online by the Australian government – were accessed by people in foreign countries, including China, Russia, Egypt, and Pakistan, and from masked anonymous locations. New documents show the information was allegedly used to threaten asylum seekers, and to…
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Ex-hospital employee’s unauthorized access to patient info leaves genuine questions of fact, COA rules
Katie Stancombe reports: A hospital group and its former employee at odds over her unauthorized access of confidential patient records aren’t quite finished with their legal battle, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled Wednesday. For nearly two years, former Franciscan Alliance employee Christina A. Padgett accessed a specific patient’s confidential protected health information in…
Saudi Arabia Issues New Personal Data Protection Law
Tarek Khanachet, Julie Teperow, and Antonio Michaelides of Covington & Burling write: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has recently issued its first comprehensive national data protection law. The Personal Data Protection Law will enter into force on March 23, 2022 and regulates the collection, processing and use of personal data in the Kingdom. Organizations with…
At: Newspaper forced to unmask commenters prevails at rights court
Molly Quell reports: Austria was wrong to force a daily newspaper to hand over information about anonymous website commenters, Europe’s top rights court ruled Tuesday. The European Court of Human Rights sided with Der Standard, finding anonymous comments critical of politicians on the newspaper’s website were covered by freedom of expression. It says Austrian authorities were…