Keely Quinlan reports from Tennessee: Kerston Abbott worked at the Montgomery County E-911 Center for nine years before she quit in October 2020, taking a massive pay cut and giving up her county benefits. She said she never had any intention of leaving until Hope Petersen was appointed director of E-911 in January 2020, launching…
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Texas hospital receives death threats, bomb threats after photo of COVID patient was posted online
Caitlin Randle reports: Medical Center Hospital reported Thursday that hospital staff have received death threats and bomb threats after a photo was posted on social media showing a COVID-19 patient wearing a plastic drape. The photo was shared on Facebook by a group called the Odessa Accountability Project, which wrote that the patient is a…
More on OCR guidance on applicability of HIPAA to worker vaccination information
Despite HHS’s recent guidance on COVID-19 vaccine status and the workplace, some people seem to refuse to accept that HIPAA says what it says — and doesn’t say what it doesn’t say. Yes, as we all know, there are multiple laws and factors that can come into play, but if the question is “What does…
Global Privacy Enforcement Network Privacy Sweep finds significant involvement of data protection authorities in COVID-19 solution-finding
Victoria — The Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN)’s annual international privacy sweep has found that data protection authorities (DPAs) around the world, including BC’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), have focused resources on assessing the privacy implications of applications and other initiatives associated with COVID-19. The annual privacy sweeps typically consist of…