Health records found in alley behind Regina clinic
A Regina clinic has been directed to put a new process in place to protect patient health information after medical records being found in an alley prompted the involvement of…
B.C. nurse suspended for snooping patient records
A nurse in Metro Vancouver has been suspended for two weeks and ordered to take remedial education after she accessed the personal health records of several people for no work-related…
London Drugs employee data leaked on dark web
More than three weeks after a cybersecurity breach forced London Drugs Ltd. to temporarily close its stores, the Vancouver-based retailer acknowledged that sensitive employee data have been leaked. Russian malware…
Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre employee snooped records of 360 patients
A Health Sciences Centre employee snooped through the medical records of about 360 patients — the latest in a series of privacy breaches involving Manitoba health-care workers. After interviewing the…
Period trackers ‘coercing’ women into sharing risky information
Female health monitoring apps are putting women at risk by “coercing” them into disclosing – and then poorly handling – highly sensitive data, according to new research. “While female health…
Grindr facing lawsuit for allegedly sharing users’ HIV status
Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass data protection lawsuit in London from hundreds of users who allegedly had their private information, including HIV status, shared with third parties…