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As COVID-19 or “coronavirus” spreads around the world, so are phishing scams or the infection of computer systems with malware through phishing emails and websites that appear to be related to the coronavirus. These phishing scams are spreading fast across the world and capitalise on the widespread panic that seems to have gripped the general…

On June 6, 2018, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in favor of LabMD in the medical testing company’s closely watched challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) data security enforcement action. While assuming that the FTC was correct that LabMD’s allegedly unreasonable security practices constituted an unfair act or practice…

A recent possible hack of the Hong Kong Department of Health’s (DH) record system in Hong Kong may affect 17,000 patients.

On 19 July 2016, the DH discovered suspicious files on the computer server hosting its Immunisation Record System. The suspicious files were believed to have been saved on the server after a…

Bloomberg BNA’s World Data Protection Report has published Gabriela Kennedy’s article on Hong Kong’s new e-health record sharing system. The territory’s Electronic Health Record Sharing System Ordinance (EHRSSO), which came on stream on 2 December 2015 aims to provide better and more efficient services through access to integrated medical data of both public and private…