Charissa Young reports: WASHINGTON – Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, the American at the centre of Singapore’s HIV registry leak, has promised to delete all information obtained from the Singapore Government in accordance with a court order granted to the Ministry of Health (MOH). The 34-year-old also swore, in a written statement filed with a US court on…
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Information Commissioner orders probe into data protection breach following ‘covert’ op by Belfast trust
Seanín Graham reports: The Information Commissioner has ordered an “enforcement investigation” into the Belfast health trust following the loss of “sensitive personal data” linked to a covert operation into allegations of sectarianism. Correspondence sent by the commissioner to a former security guard at Belfast City Hospital acknowledges the “extreme upset” caused by the trust’s secret…
Brown-Darrell patients demand return of records
Jonathan Bell reports: Patients from Bermuda Healthcare Services and the Brown-Darrell Clinic met John Rankin, the Governor, yesterday to demand the return of medical records seized by police. […] The files were taken when authorities raided both clinics, owned by former Progressive Labour Party premier Ewart Brown, more than two years ago. The records were…
Health Apps Can Share Your Data Everywhere, New Study Shows
Samantha Cole reports: A new study out of the University of Toronto, published in The BMJ on Wednesday, highlights privacy issues around health apps by examining how medicine management apps share personal user data. The researchers found that most of the apps they tested shared sensitive information like medical history and demographics with third parties….