Simoney Kyriakou reports: Fos [Financial Ombudsman Service] has claimed that more data protection breaches are coming across its radar, where providers have disclosed personal and sensitive financial information. According to Fos, one complaint involved a mortgage lender providing personal financial information about its client, Mr H, to his partner – who promptly left him when she…
Month: September 2015
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: Nonfederal Efforts to Help Achieve Health Information Interoperability
From a newly released GAO report: Representatives from the 18 nonfederal initiatives GAO reviewed described a variety of efforts they are undertaking to achieve or facilitate electronic health record (EHR) interoperability, but most of these initiatives remain works in progress. EHR interoperability is the ability of systems to exchange electronic health information with other systems…
Abortion Clinic, Privacy Cases Wait in Wings at High Court
Marcia Coyle reports: Significant challenges that involve abortion, solitary confinement, insider trading and other contentious questions await the justices’ decisions on whether to add them to the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more on National Law Journal.
Woman sues SeaWorld, Orlando Sentinel over leaked phone call
Mary Shanklin reports: A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Inc., the Orlando Sentinel and several other defendants for disseminating what she claims is a wiretapped phone conversation. The complaint filed in Orange County, Texas, states that SeaWorld in 2010 purchased a video recording of a “personal and sensitive” phone…