Cryptic moves
Vickram Crishna <v1clist-/[email protected]>
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http://mvp.substanti.al/article/5f31cd10-34e8-4c93-9305-ddc584a9c3d2 County moves to require computer encryption after medical data breach published 05/28/2014 17:05, from latimes.com Following a break-in at a county health contractor's office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data. From where I stand, it looks like the inevitable result of years, perhaps decades, of systematically weakening standards and enabling state conduct of mass surveillance, brought in its wake a fan club of criminals and quasi-criminals, and now personal data is fair game. In India, of course, applying such protection in any functional manner invariably trips over one law or another, while the laws that support patient confidentiality do not seem to be used or are not effective when thefts are wholesale, and may not even require physical access, hence inverstigators conveniently fall back upon the two IT laws, Indian Telegraph and Information Technology. Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ India-gii mailing list India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii