Caroline Bruneau reports: The European Aviation Safety Agency has begun to consider new recommendations related to medical privacy in response to the suicide flight of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz, EASA chief Patrick Ky revealed during a recent press breakfast organized in Paris by French aviation journalists association AJPAE. Ky revealed the agency has consulted with psychiatrists as part…
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Retired Mounties sue RCMP over disclosure of their mental health records
Keith Fraser reports: A class action lawsuit filed in Vancouver alleges that the RCMP has breached the privacy of a number of Mounties by wrongfully disclosing their mental health records. The suit says that the disclosure of the records in 2012 was done to undermine the work of Dr. Michael Webster, a longtime RCMP psychologist…
A.G. Schneiderman Leads Multistate Coalition Urging U.S. Supreme Court To Review Case Concerning Restrictions Limiting Access To Abortion Services
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that he is leading a coalition of a dozen states in filing a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari to review a federal appellate court decision upholding two provisions of Texas law that significantly restrict access to abortion services in that state. The provisions…
South Korea: Medical data delivers yet another identity crisis
In today’s installment of Re-identification of “Anonymized” Data is Often Too Damned Easy, Naked Security reports on a re-identification study by Latanya Sweeney and Ji Su Yoo: …. A pair of researchers at Harvard University wondered if similar problems might exist for South Koreans, whose RRNs [Resident Registration Number] are used as database indexes in all walks of life,…