At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted an operation that the FTC alleges collected phantom payday loan "debts" that consumers did not owe.
Chelsea Rudman reports: Last week, the Virginia Legislature moved closer to passing a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound. Media reports and experts noted that because the mandate would apply to very early pregnancies as well, a traditional ultrasound would not always be adequate...
Ochsner is reporting yet another breach involving patient data: Staff at Ochsner Medical Center say an external hard drive containing patients’ personal and medical information is missing from the West Bank campus. The hard drive is designed to work with a bone density machine at the campus, and it was...
Michael Kiefer reports: The judge in Jared Loughner’s case ruled that prosecutors can have access to notes made by Loughner’s prison psychologist during her evaluations of his mental health. The man charged in last year’s mass shootings near Tucson is undergoing restoration to competency at a federal hospital in Missouri....
From DutchNews.nl: Private information about patients is ‘there for the taking’ at some Dutch pharmacies, according to a new report by the privacy watchdog CBP, theVolkskrant reports on Friday. Local authority and amusement park data bases are also extremely vulnerable to hackers, the watchdog says. The CPB looked at 15 public...
Sandra E. García reports: As some members of the ARC XVI Fort Washington Heights Senior Center made their way to the center this past Thurs., Feb. 9th for breakfast, they walked past a patch of sidewalk covered in white. But the previous night’s snowfall was not the culprit. Instead, confidential...
Dan Verel reports: St. Joseph Health System has alerted more than 10,000 patients in Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Napa that their personal health information records may have been searchable on the Internet. Notices of the possible security breach were sent on Monday to 6,235 patients from Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital,...