The Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower has been hit with a $187,500 fine for failing for a second time to prevent unauthorized access to confidential patient information, state pubic health officials said today. [Updated at 3 p.m.: A spokesman for the hospital said the fine was part of the ongoing investigation into employees improperly accessing…
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Summary of findings and Facebook’s response
Facebook has responded to the report of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on complaints it received about Facebook. The Commissioner’s report summarizes their findings this way: Allegations Not Well-Founded 379. With regard to New Uses of Personal Information, Collection of Personal Information from Sources Other than Facebook, Facebook Mobile and Safeguards, and Deception and Misrepresentation,…
Twitter lawyers up
The BBC reports that Twitter is speaking with lawyers after over 300 documents were hacked and then published on the web. As reported yesterday, TechCrunch has published some of the documents that did not contain personal information. But the hacked documents being published are not the only security problem Twitter is dealing with this week….
Swedish ISP to appeal file sharing verdict
Swedish broadband provider Ephone has said it will appeal a controversial court ruling obliging it to hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations. The Solna District Court ruled that Ephone will face 750,000 kronor ($95,000) in fines if it fails to comply with the order to hand over information…