A New Orleans teachers' union claims the East Baton Rouge Parish school system violated its employees’ privacy rights when it purchased a full-page ad to congratulate—by name—1,113 educators, The Advocate reports. In Illinois, a local hospital is alerting some of its patients of a possible data breach after a laptop was stolen from an employee’s car. In California, a public health unit is notifying almost 600 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after a laptop was stolen there. And in Iowa, law enforcement is investigating a breach of electronic medical records after a third-party company gained access to the system using an authorized user’s password. Meanwhile, healthcare experts have been discussing concerns related to the need to share veterans’ healthcare data and recent breaches at Veterans Affairs.
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