Dean Beeby reports: The Canada Revenue Agency has fired an employee for the biggest single privacy breach ever detected involving confidential taxpayer accounts. The employee improperly accessed the accounts of 38 taxpayers in detail, and briefly accessed another 1,264 accounts […]
Jane Musgrave reports: A former Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy on Friday was allowed to recant his guilty pleas and will get a chance to persuade a jury that he didn’t use his access to law enforcement databases to propel […]
Blake Hanson reports on an incident that was seemingly reported to federal regulators and patients last year, but flew under the media radar for the most part until criminal charges were revealed this week: Federal prosecutors have charged a Charlotte […]
Carl Difford reports: An administrator who worked in a GP’s surgery has been fined after she illegally accessed the confidential medical records of one patient 51 times. Sally Anne Day, 41, of Abergavenny, logged on to a second patient’s records […]
Global Times reports: The Supreme People’s Procuratorate of China announced several typical cases of infringement of personal information. One of the cases involved several national staff members who take advantage of their positions to illegally obtain – and sell – […]