Cameron Abbott, Keely O’Dowd, and Giles Whittaker of K&L Gates write: As discussed in a recent blog post on CyberWatch Australia, researchers from the University of Melbourne successfully re-identified the medical data of Australian patients that formed part of a de-identified open dataset. This raises a myriad of questions about privacy, the need for access to big…
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BlackBerry joins with Melanoma Institute Australia to trial secure research platform
One to watch. Lynne Minion reports: Better known for its mobile phones, once favoured by federal politicians and Kardashians, BlackBerry has spent years eking out a role as a global leader in the cybersecurity space. Now the brand is partnering with Melanoma Institute Australia to trial a secure data storage and collaboration platform to advance…
Nikolas Cruz refused mental health services once he reached 18, Runcie says
There’s a concerning piece in the Sun Sentinel that describes how alleged mass shooter Nikolas Crus refused special education/mental health services at age 18, and how there was nothing the school district could do about that. The intersection between HIPAA and FERPA is one that has come up before – most notably after the Virginia Tech…
N.W.T. Health Information Act too complicated, should be simplified, says privacy commissioner
Jamie Malbeuf reports: The privacy commissioner is calling on the N.W.T. government to fix its Health Information Act because she says it’s too dense and hard to understand. Elaine Keenan Bengts, the information and privacy commissioner for the N.W.T. and Nunavut, met with MLAs on Thursday to tell them what she thought of the territory’s…